The Cherry Orchard (LG Arts Center SEOUL)
What playwright and director Simon Stone does with "The Cherry Orchard" is less a conventional modernization than a cultural transplant: Anton Chekhov’s doomed Russian estate becomes a glittering Korean corporate dynasty, and the old anxieties about inheritance, class, obsolescence, and the inability to recognize that history has moved on to acquire the glossy, feverish atmosphere of a contemporary K-drama. Produce…