Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
Play by Anton Chekhov, premiered by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904.
The outbreak of the war in September 1939 forced the cancellation of Michel Saint-Denis's eagerly anticipated production of The Cherry Orchard, then in rehearsal. Twenty-two years later, one of Peter Hall's first acts as director of the RSC was to invite Saint-Denis to stage the play for his new company. Peggy Ashcroft (Anya in 1939) played Madame Ranyevskaya to John Gielgud's Gaev. Here was an early example of Hall's ingenious planning (bringing Gielgud, however briefly, and Saint-Denis, for the rest of his life, to the RSC). The production, which transferred from Stratford to the Aldwych (where the Stage Society had given the British premiere of The Cherry Orchard in 1911), was the culmination of Ashcroft and Gielgud's long association with Chekhov, and an important departure for its younger members, Ian Holm, Judi Dench and Dorothy Tutin.
Few subsequent productions have equalled Saint-Denis's for prestige, but the RSC's 1995 revival in the Swan was one of them. Elegantly designed and vividly performed (spectators were surrounded by the action), Adrian Noble's production was delicately balanced between comedy and tragedy.
John Gielgud (trans.). Farrah (design); John Wyckham (lighting); Brian Priestman (music); Roberto Gerhard (sound)
Peggy Ashcroft (Madame Ranyevskaya), John Gielgud (Gaev), George Murcell (Lopakhin), Judi Dench (Anya), Ian Holm (Trofimov), Dorothy Tutin (Varya), David Buck (Yasha), Patsy Byrne (Dunyasha), Patrick Wymark (Epihodov), Roy Dotrice (Firs), Patience Collier (Charlotta), Paul Hardwick (Pishchik), William Wallis (Stationmaster), Gareth Morgan (Post Office Clerk), Gordon Gostelow (Passer-by), Michael Murray (Official), Julian Battersby (Gardener), Ronald Scott-Dodd (Schoolmaster), Narissa Knights (Stationmaster's Wife), Rosemary Mussell (Schoolmaster's Wife), Peter Holmes, Russell Hunter (Coachmen), Michael Warchus (Stableboy)
1995 Swan/1996 Swan/1996-97 Albery/1997 UK Tour: Adrian Noble
Peter Gill (version). Richard Hudson (design); Wayne Dowdeswell (lighting); Stephen Warbeck (music); Sue Lefton (movement)
Penelope Wilton (Madame Ranyevskaya), Alec McCowen (Gaev), David Troughton (Lopakhin), Lucy Whybrow/Emilia Fox (Anya), Sean Murray (Trofimov), Kate Duchêne (Varya), Mark Lockyer (Yasha), Josie Lawrence/Louise Gold (Dunyasha), John Dougall (Epihodov), Peter Copley (Firs), Darlene Johnson (Charlotta), James Hayes (Pishchik), Gary Taylor/Tim Thomas (Stationmaster/Servant), Christopher Tune/John Nash (Post Office Clerk/Servant), Paul Hilton/Steven Elder (Passer-by/Servant), Lisé Stevenson/Harriet Cater (Servant), Rachel Sanders/Charlotte Longfield (Servant)
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