The Cherry Orchard
- Summary
- 1981 BBC production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
- Theatre play
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 13 October 1981
- Time
- 9.25-11.37pm
- Channel
- BBC1
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Richard Eyre
- Producer
- Ann Scott
- Lighting
- Howard King
- Senior Cameraman
- Geoff Feld
- Playwright
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- Adaptor of Script
- Trevor Griffiths (1935-) ('English version by’)
- Translator
- Helen Rappaport
- Designer
- Susan Spence
- Sound
- Richard Partridge
- Cast
Suzanne Burden Anya Paul Curran Firs Judi Dench Madame Ranevsky David Blake Kelly Stationmaster Anton Lesser Trofimov Frances Low Dunyasha Anna Massey Charlotte Bill Paterson Lopakhin Wensley Pithey Pischik David Rintoul Yasha Timothy Spall Epikhodov Frederick Treves Gayev Richard Vanstone Passer-by Harriet Walter Varya
Additional details
- Play tags
- Russian drama
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- The Cherry Orchard (BBC, 1981)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
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Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 October 1981 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- article, pp. 23-25 and listing, p. 51, both with photographs
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