Performance Overview

The anthem of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” could apply to the theme of “The Cherry Orchard” written a century earlier by Anton Chekhov, considered one of the founders of modern drama. The change that’s “gonna come” is the Russian Revolution. The titular orchard stands on an upper-class estate whose owner won’t face the fact that it will have to be chopped down to pay off the family’s debts. Chekhov’s tragicomedy explores how the blissfully oblivious landed gentry ignore the unstoppable deluge of events that will eventually lead to a dismantling of the aristocracy.

This production is directed by UNCSA School of Drama faculty member Quin Gordon.