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Cherry Orchard, The

noun

  1. a play (1904) by Chekhov.



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They could play for hours in a cherry orchard the family planted beside their home in Elizabeth Lake, in the hills east of Lancaster.

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Not far from the cherry orchard, the residents of the Shady Rest mobile home park came home in the afternoon to find neither shade nor rest.

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Andrei Gelasimov’s The Lying Year is a dark poignant comedy set in 1990s Moscow that explores – like Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard – the moral confusion of a world in flux.

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In place of Chekov’s cherry orchard, the rural estate at risk is a hunting lodge in upstate New York.

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Another person had seen robins on a rampage in a cherry orchard, the ground littered with birds and fallen fruit.

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