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The Cherry Orchard

Hungarian Theatre of Cluj

The Cherry Orchard is about is time, the nature of time, the sense of what time is. Here the present time is in a collision with past and future, and that’s the actual conflict: the cherry orchard is a very heavy past, and some people are stuck in the past, others are stuck in the future, and then there is Ljubov, who is the present. Whose answer is life only matters when you live it. (Yuri Kordonsky – stage director)

The Cherry Orchard
A. P. Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard

Directed by Yuri Kordonsky
Hungarian Theatre of Cluj
Opening Date
12-12-2021

This last year, year and a half with the pandemics completely changed the rhythm of life and abraded us from many familiar activities, and it felt like a major test for us. People lost family members, husbands, wives, parents, children without being able to say goodbye. It is an incredibly heavy experience. Suddenly all the questions arise, questions like what is memory, what do we carry on, how memory defines us, and how do we define time and memory, and what is our answer to it? How do you go on living after something like this? How do you remain human? What does it even mean to be human? All the plays that we have discussed for a possible project fell off the table, because suddenly the question became: is there something that can speak about this unexpected and shocking experience that we were all forced to live? I didn’t find anything better than The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is about is time, the nature of time, the sense of what time is. Here the present time is in a collision with past and future, and that’s the actual conflict: the cherry orchard is a very heavy past, and some people are stuck in the past, others are stuck in the future, and then there is Ljubov, who is the present. Whose answer is life only matters when you live it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Yuri Kordonsky – stage director

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