The focus too often strays from Chekhov and his darkly comic portrait of a Russia to a piece of silly business or a maladroit placement of rows of audience members, breaking the fourth wall. He has the working class upstart Lopakhin sing "My Way," the Frank Sinatra classic, to celebrate his buying the cherry orchard"a jarringly farcical bit. The post The Cherry Orchard appeared first on TheaterScene.net.
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