ABSTRACT
Should Chekhov's ‘Cherry Orchard’ be played lightly, satirically, almost in the farcical manner? Mr J.B. Fagan, producer of the version at the Lyric, Hammersmith, is for the moment explanatory chorus to ‘this great masterpiece of the theatre,’ as William Archer once was to the successive profundities of Ibsen; and he remind us, in a note on the programme, that the author saw drama turning into comedy, as the play took shape.
