“Take seven contemporary American
playwrights with highly distinctive voices and wildly differing
approaches to the theater. Ask each to adapt one of Anton Chekhov's short stories, which range in mood from the melancholic
to the satiric—and back again...the results are incomparably
delicious...when ORCHARDS is good—which is most of the time—it is very, very good, indeed....”
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“The notion of asking seven contemporary playwrights to
produce variations on themes by Anton Chekhov seems at first like
asking for combination-platter theater....All of the playwrights
use Chekhov short stories for a springboard—but
some have jumped so far into the deep end that it would be more accurate to say
that they maybe looked at his picture while they were writing.... Whether you
pick from Column A or Column B, ORCHARDS offers a superior menu.”
Megan Rosenfeld, The Washington Post
originally produced by The Acting Company
THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, 1
M, 1 F
VINT
by David Mamet, 6 M
DROWNING by Maria Irene Fornes, 3 M
A DOPEY FAIRY TALE by Michael Weller (from The
Skit), 8 M, 3 F
EVE OF THE TRIAL by Samm-Art
Williams, 3 M, 4 F
THE TALKING DOG by John Guare
(from A Joke), 2 M, 2 F
RIVKALA'S RING
by Spalding Gray (from The Witch), 1 M
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