Kenelm Foss directed first English Cherry Orchard in London 1911

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1911: The first performance in English was given on 28 May 1911 by the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in a translation by Constance Garnett. The director was Kenelm Foss, and the cast included Edmund Breon (Yasha), Herbert Bunston (Lopakhin), Franklin Dyall (Gaev), Mary Jerrold ...

Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Paris. He was, however, more interested in theatre and in 1903 made his first ...

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As Russian theaters were being co-opted by revolutionary forces, the play was hailed as describing the inevitable collapse of the aristocratic class. The production toured to Eastern Europe and finally, in 1906, to Berlin where it was played in Russian to ecstatic reviews. Constance Garnett's "pretty, lyrical" translation opened in London in 1911.

where some audiences cheered the fall of the nobility. By 1911,

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This edition is in one big file (about 125KB) for your convenience. Select chorch2.htm to read the play by acts. [Note: the AltaVista search engine indexes only the first 100KB of a file.] · Kindly contributed by James Rusk <jrusk@cyberramp.net> Please see the original in Russian at the excellent ...