Following its preview performances, The Cherry Orchard is thrilled to introduce a new £30 ticket initiative for audience members under 30. For every performance from 20 October the entire front row of the Stalls, will be available at the reduced price, creating more than 1,700 affordable tickets across the run.
BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning Kristin Scott Thomas (Electra, Slow Horses, Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Stephen Mangan (The Split, Episodes, The Birthday Party) lead the cast of Ian Rickson’s production as Lyubov Ranevskaya and Lopakhin respectively.
They are joined by; Ruby Bentall (Industry) as Sharlotta, Megan Cusack (Playboy of the Western World) as Dunyasha, Karl Johnson (King Lear) as Firs, Anastasia Martin (Cold War) as Anya, Noof Ousellam (Macbeth) as Yasha, Jeff Rawle (Shadowlands) as Pishchik, Jack Riddiford (Stereophonic) as Trofimov, Vinette Robinson (Emilia) as Varya, Shubham Saraf (An Enemy of the People) as Yepikhodov and Peter Wight (Three Sisters) as Gaev.
The travelling band and understudies for the production are; Kathleen Cranham (Cyrano de Bergerac), Rachel Dawson (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and Fergus Murphy (Calamity Jane), they are joined by understudies Philip Bosworth (Jekyll & Hyde), Alex Childs (Three Sisters), Paul Easom (Oedipus), and Miles Paloma (Oh, Mary!).
The Cherry Orchard sees Stephen Mangan reunite with Ian Rickson, having previously worked with him on Pinter’s The Birthday Party in 2018.
Ian Rickson (Uncle Vanya, Jerusalem) and Kristin Scott Thomas also reunite to bring another Chekhov classic to the stage, Scott Thomas having previously played Arkadina in Rickson’s acclaimed production of The Seagull which ran both in London and on Broadway; a role for which Kristin won the Olivier Award for Best Actress.
The Cherry Orchard also sees Rickson and Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country, Uncle Vanya) working together again having had previous success on the 1997 production of McPherson’s critically acclaimed The Weir and Uncle Vanya in 2020.
The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov’s final masterpiece, captures a world in delicate and inevitable transition, and remains as timeless and resonant as ever.