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Director Howard Davies clearly believes in the maxim that new plays should be treated like classics and classics like new plays.
He has given Chekhov's last play about memory, survival, identity and ownership a shaking to shed much of its languor and revel in its comedy and farce. What it needs, however, is greater delicacy and depth of emotion.
The Cherry Orchard entwines the past, present and future as it relates the withering fortunes of Madame Ranyevskaya (Robyn Nevin) and her family.
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Most commanding is Philip Quast as the ambivalent Lopakhin, the old servant friend and new moneyed foe who struggles to fit his new rising class. He is brilliant.
© The Sydney Morning Herald.