The Cherry Orchard Tickets

Anton Chekhov’s final play — written in the last months of his life and premiered five months before his death in 1904 — is at once a comedy of manners and a devastating elegy for a vanishing world. Around Lyubov, her family and their circle of friends, servants and neighbours debate, dream, argue and avoid the one conversation that matters: what to do about the orchard, the estate, and a way of life that can no longer sustain itself.

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas — BAFTA winner, Olivier Award-winner for The Seagull, Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated for The English Patient, and currently acclaimed in Slow Horses — plays Lyubov in what is already one of the most anticipated West End productions in years. She reunites for the third time with director Ian Rickson, following their productions of The Seagull (Royal Court / Broadway, Olivier Award for Best Actress) and Electra.

The new adaptation is by Olivier Award winner Conor McPherson — the Irish playwright behind The Weir, Girl from the North Country and Shining City — who previously worked with Rickson on a celebrated production of Uncle Vanya at this same Harold Pinter Theatre. Set designer Chloe Lamford (Arcadia, Teeth ’n’ Smiles), lighting designer Bruno Poet, movement director Shelley Maxwell and casting director Amy Ball CDG complete the creative team.