La Cerisaie
[ The Cherry Orchard ]
by Anton Tchekhov
directed by Tiago Rodrigues
estimated duration 2h10
Odéon 6e
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage – Festival d’Avignon
with
Isabelle Huppert
Isabel Abreu
Tom Adjibi
Nadim Ahmed
Suzanne Aubert
Marcel Bozonnet
Océane Cairaty
Alex Descas
Adama Diop
David Geselson
Grégoire Monsaingeon
Alison Valence
et les musiciens
Manuela Azevedo
Hélder Gonçalves
Until recently, the Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues had always considered Chekhov's final masterpiece as « a play about the end of things, about death and farewells » : after all, its plot revolves around the sale of an old family property and the sacrifice of an almost hundred-year-old orchard. But Rodrigues now sees it as a celebration of change, a whirlwind of creative destruction. In its midst stands Lyubov. This Cherry Orchard where she lost a son is practically a part of her soul. So why doesn't she do anything to prevent its being seized and auctioned away? Isabelle Huppert will play the part of Chekhov’s unforgettably « complex, extravagant and lunar » heroine, in a Cherry Orchard that should be, according to Rodrigues, a mirror of « our uncertain times ».
