Her fear turns to nightmare upon discovering her house and the beautiful, adjoining orchard must be sold to pay her spiralling debts. Worse still, the sale is being driven by a young, local entrepreneur who she once ‘owned’ as a serf.

A towering classic of European theatre, Anton Chekhov’s deeply symbolic, tragi-comic masterpiece is at once funny, cruel and tender; a powerful evocation of a world on the brink of immense social change.