The Cherry Orchard review " Ian McKellen is brilliantly poignant in resonant adaptation by Mark Lawson

Theatre Royal WindsorArtfully combining clumsiness with precision, McKellen's Firs is the highlight of a production marked by arresting gestures and modern parallels Having recently played Hamlet at around twice the usual age, Ian McKellen returns to the Theatre Royal Windsor in a part for which he is, strictly, too youthful. Firs, the servant in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, is 87. McKellen, five years younge…

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