13th Madách International Theatre Meeting

Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," directed by Russian playwright and director Nikolai Kolyada, is a play about people much like those we encounter in modern life. About those who are afraid to make decisions, those who hide from problems, hoping everything will resolve itself, those who refuse to fight but dutifully accept the blows of fate.

Chekhov's classic play is incredibly relevant today. In Kolyada's play, the cherry orchard has long been gone; everything has been sold, everything has been destroyed, and instead of white cherry blossoms all that remains are plastic cups, plastic that is destroying nature, our beautiful planet.

And then a new owner appears, cruel and arrogant. But he doesn't need the orchard; he decides to cut it down, build summer resorts, and make money from them. However, in the finale of the play, like a hurricane, he knocks down and destroys everything, nothing remains, and only some insect, some cockroach or lizard crawls out into this world where life once existed, where our cherry orchard once stood, where we lived and loved, but we left devastation in our wake.