A country house with the most beautiful cherry orchard in the area is on the brink of bankruptcy and collapse.

The almost indifferent middle-class owners do nothing to save it from being sold. They lose their beloved ancestral home and all they can do is look at it and reminisce... Reliving their childhood memories, longing for the old pleasant moments, dancing, laughing, flirting...

Nothing makes them regret their decision, even when they hear the axes striking loudly and cutting down their beloved cherry trees. Anton Chekhov, through his work, depicts the constant decay of everyday life in 20th-century Russia, yet gives a note of hope for the future and makes an accurate prediction of the revolution that followed.

"The Cherry Orchard", the greatest achievement of the naturalistic movement in modern theater, is Chekhov's last play. It was written and revised when the author was terminally ill and forced by his tuberculosis to live in the milder climate of Yalta, on the Black Sea, some seven hundred miles away from Moscow. [...]

Despite the slow gestation of the work, Chekhov's progress in the dramaturgy of "The Cherry Orchard" presupposes absolute confidence in what he was doing. It is worth noting the change of scenery from Act to Act, the movement from the house to the outside, to the estate (one might say, to the city, which is outlined on the horizon) and back to the house; and within the house, from the room of tender memories, the nursery, to other rooms, more neutral, and back to the nursery. Alongside these visible changes, Chekhov utilizes the theme of weather and seasons, moving from the chill of spring, which heralds the warmth of summer, to the chill of autumn, which foretells winter. Here, the lyricism of "The Seagull" reappears in Chekhov's dramatic writing. [...]"

(excerpt from the text: J. L. Styan, "The Cherry Orchard", from his book "Chekhov in Performance", Cambridge University Press, 1971)