Liubov Ranevskaya, a widowed landowner, returns home more or less insolvent after 5 years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers it but hers is a diminishing world. The vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her mounting debts. The insistent warnings of Lopakhin, a peasant’s son turned wealthy businessman, go unheeded, and more than the family’s estate is on the block: in the words of Trofimov, the "eternal student’ who hopes to inherit the future, “the whole of Russia is our orchard”. Chekhov’s last play is a piognant and comic snapshot of te great slow-rolling change that came to a head with the Russian revelution of 1917. Directed by Emma Spurgin Hussey and designed by Jackie Moule