He reimagines the characters of the play and throws them out into the void with this very loose adaptation. Patel is a dexterous writer, mounting such a difficult uphill battle is commendable indeed. Issues not alien (see what I did there?) to the themes of colonisation and spaceships. Set in the failing light of the old aristocracy of Russia, issues of class, history, modernity, freedom, and space are all touched on in classic Chekhovian prose. Written in 1904, the play was Chekhov’s last and one of the big four. It’s a tall task, but a task that Vinay Patel’s new reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard laughs in the face of, perhaps foolhardily. In my best Captain kirk voice: “Space, the final frontier.”īut a frontier that theatre generally sticks clear off due to budget and practical constraints. Tripti Tripuraneni’s performance is one ‘saving grace’.
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