The Cherry Orchard

Like many of my classmates, I found this play to be very hard to follow. There were too many characters which took away form the importance of a few. It seemed as if a lot of them were unnecessary and distracting. The fact that the names were Russian made it worse because I was unfamiliar with the pronunciations. 

I think that this play had a good theme to it. The idea of social change and moving on. However, there was too much randomness going on throughout the play for me to really focus on the theme, or for it to have a strong impact. I found Ranevsky to be be extremely annoying. She seemed like a selfish person and I didn't feel badly for her that she lost her Cherry Orchard.

I guess this play play does, however, provide a good portrayal of the social change and the devastation of poverty and loss going on in Russia. It wasn't a bad play, but I it could have been more concise.