Praxi Theatre Company
Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage A
First performance: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
A house in the countryside with the most beautiful cherry orchard in the area is on the brink of bankruptcy and collapse.
The almost indifferent bourgeois owners do nothing to keep it from being sold. They are losing their beloved ancestral home, and all they can do is look at it and reminisce… Reliving their childhood memories, nostalgic for their former glory days, dancing, laughing, flirting.
Nothing makes them regret their decision, even when they hear the axes striking hard, cutting down their beloved cherry trees. Anton Chekhov, through his work, depicts the constant decay of daily life in 20th-century Russia, while also allowing for a note of hope for the future and making an accurate prediction of the revolution that would follow.
Source: Kefallinias Street Theatre
Translated by: Chrysa Prokopaki
Directed by: Stathis Livathinos
Set & Costume Design: Eleni Manolopoulou
Music: Thodoris Abazis
Lighting Design: Alekos Anastasiou
Movement: Konstantinos Michos
Assistant Directors: Markos Tsoumas | Sofia Kapsourou
Assistant Set & Costume Designer: Tina Tzoka
Cast:
Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya, landowner: Betty Arvaniti
Anya, her daughter, 17 years old: Marina Symeou
Varya, her adopted daughter, 24 years old: Ginny Papadopoulou
Leonid Andreieveitch Gayev, her brother: Giannis Fertis
Yermolai Alexeievitch Lopakhin, a merchant: Dimosthenis Papadopoulos
Pyotr Sergeievich Trofimov, a student: Dimitris Panikolaou
Boris Borisovich Simeonov-Pishchik, a landowner | Passerby: Stelios Iakovidis
Charlotta Ivanovna, a governess: Maria Savvidou
Semyon Pantaleevich Yepikhodov, an accountant: Vassilis Karaboulas
Dunyasha, a housemaid: Penelope Markopoulou
Firs, a manservant, aged 87: Kostas Galanakis
Yasha, a young manservant: Aris Troupakis
2010 Athinorama Audience Awards
3rd Prize for Costume Design (Eleni Manolopoulou)