The Cherry Orchard

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The Cherry
Orchard

  • 29 May – 27 June 2021 Upstairs Theatre
  • 2 Hours & 35 minutes (approx.) Incl interval
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The Cherry
Orchard

by Anton Chekhov
Directed & Adapted by Eamon Flack

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 29 May – 27 June 2021
  • Duration 2 Hours & 35 minutes (approx.) Incl interval
  • Supported by
    • The Chair’s Circle

A homecoming. A picnic. A party. A leavetaking.

It’s an uncertain time. Change is coming, you can sniff it in the air.

A matriarch returns to a home that’s seen better days – but it still has its orchard. Precious, beautiful, but…in the way.

Chekhov’s great, last play needs no embellishment to describe our times. What orchards are we cutting down? What orchards are we planting?

Pamela Rabe leads a large cast from today’s Australia, in a classic as funny as it is profound. This promises to be one of the highlights of 2021.

I’ve wanted to do this for years. With a richly talented gang of actors and after the year we’ve all lived through…it’s time for this beautiful, celebratory, moving play. – Eamon Flack

Special thanks to Ben Quilty for the painting of The Cherry Orchard family painting, “Untitled”.

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TEAM

  • Anton Chekhov
    Writer
  • Eamon Flack
    Director
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    Eamon Flack is the Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney. He is a director, writer, dramaturg and script developer for stage and screen.  Eamon was born in Singapore and grew up in Singapore, Darwin, Cootamundra and Brisbane. He has a BA (English and History) from the University of Queensland, and trained as an actor […]

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  • Cast

  • Peter Carroll
    Firs
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    Peter’s distinguished career has spanned over 90 productions. He continues to work in musical theatre, new Australian texts and the classics. For Belvoir, Peter has appeared in The Cherry Orchard, Life of Galileo, An Enemy of The People, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Twelfth Night, The Great Fire, Seventeen, A Christmas Carol, Oedipus Rex, Old Man, The […]

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  • Priscilla Doueihy
    Petya
  • Nadie Kammallaweera
    Varya
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    Nadie appeared in Belvoir’s critically acclaimed production of Counting and Cracking in 2019. In 2021, Nadie appeared in another Belvoir production, The Cherry Orchard, directed by Eamon Flack. Other theatre credits include Kalumali (Stages Theatre Group, Colombo), House of Bernada Alba (directed by Priyantha Sirikumara), Blood Wedding (directed by Kaushalya Fernando), Snow White and the […]

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  • Kirsty Marillier
    Anya
  • Lucia Mastrantone
    Charlotta
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    Lucia has a successful career in theatre, physical theatre, film, TV and as a voice artist.  Select theatre credits include Sydney Theatre Company: The Harp in the South, Talk, Marriage Blanc, Romeo & Juliet. Belvoir: The Cherry Orchard, Atlantis, Twelfth Night, The Book of Everything, Scorched, Macbeth. Hayes Theatre: Young Frankenstein. Griffin: Window, Cricket Bat, […]

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  • Mandela Mathia
    Lopahkin
  • Sarah Meacham
    Dunyasha
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    Sarah is a graduate of the University of Wollongong, Bachelor of Performance – Acting. Since graduating, her theatre credits include: The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir dir. Eamon Flack), First Love is the Revolution (Griffin Theatre Co.), Extinction of the Learned Response (Belvoir 25A, Glitterbomb dir. Carissa Licciardello), The Wolves (Belvoir and Redline Productions dir. Jessica Arthur) You Got […]

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  • Josh Price
    Pischchick
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    Josh graduated from VCA in Acting in 2008 and quickly established himself in Melbourne theatre regularly performing for MTC, Malthouse and Chunky Move. Since moving to Sydney he has performed in A Streetcar Named Desire (Red Line/Old Fitz), Let The Right One In (Darlinghurst) The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir), Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare) and Going Down […]

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  • Pamela Rabe
    Ranevskaya
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    Pamela is one of Australia’s most prolific and highly awarded actors. For her work in theatre and musicals, amongst numerous nominations, she has been awarded 3 Helpmann Awards for Best Actress for The Children, The Glass Menagerie and Grey Gardens, 8 Melbourne Green Room Awards, a Sydney Critics’ Circle Award and a “Mo” Award. Other […]

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  • Keith Robinson
    Gaev
  • Jack Scott
    Yepikhodov
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    Jack Scott will next be seen in the highly anticipated Network Seven series RFDS.  He most recently appeared in the International Emmy Kids Award winning ABC series Hardball, ABC/HBO Max series Frayed and the feature film Hearts And Bones.  Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2017, his other screen credits […]

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  • Charles Wu
    Yasha
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    Charles Wu is one of Australia’s most exciting actors of stage and screen. Charles graduated from NIDA in 2014 and is well known for his work on popular series Doctor Doctor. Charles’ other television credits include Summer Love, The Letdown, Harrow, Here Come the Habibs, and Secret City. He was also seen in feature film […]

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  • Creatives

  • Romanie Harper
    Set & Costume Designer
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    Romanie Is a set and costume designer based in Melbourne. Her recent design credits include The Cherry Orchard, Packer and Sons (Belvoir Street Theatre), Sunshine Super Girl (Sydney Festival and Performing Lines), Runt (fortyfive downstairs), What Am I Supposed to Do? and Equinox (Deep Souful Sweats), Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy, Little Emperors and […]

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  • Nick Schlieper
    Lighting Designer
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    Nick Schlieper has designed for all of the major performing arts companies in Australia, and works regularly in Europe and the USA. He is one of Australia’s most highly awarded designers having received seven Sydney Critics Awards (two for set design and 5 for lighting design), six Melbourne Green Room Awards, the inaugural 2013 Australian […]

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  • Stefan Gregory
    Composer & Sound Designer
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    Stefan Gregory is an Australian composer and sound designer for theatre, dance and film. His recent productions include: Medea (Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY), Yerma (The Young Vic, London), Medea, Ibsen Huis, Husbands And Wives (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Drei Schwestern, Engel In Amerika, Medea (Theatre Basel), Trilogie de Vengeance, Les Trois Soeurs (L’Odeon, Paris), Avalanche (Barbican, […]

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  • Elle Evangelista
    Choreographer
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    Elle Evangelista loves dancing. Her BELVOIR choreography credits include The Cherry Orchard, The Boomkak Panto, The Rep Season and A Midnight Summer’s Dream with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Her other theatre choreography credits include Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare), A Very Expensive Poison (NIDA) and How To Catch A Star (Australian Chamber Orchestra). As a dancer […]

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  • Nigel Poulton
    Fight & Movement Director
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    Nigel is an award-winning movement director, fight and intimacy coordinator, SAG-AFTRA/MEAA stunt performer and actor, with over 25 years of professional experience. Selected theatre credits include: for Belvoir St Theatre, The Master and Margarita, Miss Peony, Packer and Sons, Things I Know To Be True, Stop Girl, Blessed Union, At What Cost?, The Jungle and […]

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  • Danielle Roffe
    Voice Coach
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    Danielle is an international voice and dialect coach, working in theatre film and TV as well as with a range of corporate clients.  She is currently based in Sydney where she lives with her husband, two children and a groodle.  She is drawn to voice as the conduit for hearing people’s stories.  Previous work includes: […]

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  • Khym Scott
    Stage Manager
  • Jessie Byrne
    Assistant Stage Manager