Quotation | Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive

“Chekhov’s tragicomic turn-of-the-century tale of the forces of change in battle with the status quo – played out around the auctioning of a family estate and subsequent destruction of a cherry orchard – transposes beautifully to a story of the doddery old guardian of a department store (the manservant Firs elevated to lead character in this reinvention) wandering his ‘manor’ in a sleep-deprived daze, terrorised by the onslaught of modern commercialism, which bursts upon his shadowy and musty world with alarming brightness and brashness.”

— Dorothy Max Prior in ‘The Works: Dreamthinkspeak’