Theater
The Cherry Orchard
Bank of America presents The Bridge Project
Produced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street Productions
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
A new version of the play by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Sam Mendes
Set design Anthony Ward
Costume design Catherine Zuber
Lighting design Paul Pyant
Sound design Paul Arditti
Hair & wig design Tom Watson
Illusions Peter Samelson
Associate Director Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Dialect Coach Timothy Monich
Casting Nancy Piccione and Maggie Lunn
Music Mark Bennett
Music direction Dan Lipton
Choreography Josh Prince
Beginning in January of 2009, some of the finest talents of New
York and London theater converge at BAM to kick off an
extraordinary venture-The Bridge Project-an unprecedented
three-year, transatlantic partnership uniting BAM, The Old Vic, and
Neal Street Productions. Academy Award winner (American
Beauty) Sam Mendes, last at BAM with Uncle Vanya and
Twelfth Night (2003 Spring Season), returns to direct a
formidable group of actors in an ocean-spanning double bill of
revered classics: The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's
Tale.
Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, and Rebecca Hall from the UK;
and Richard Easton, Josh Hamilton, and Ethan Hawke from the US take
the stage in Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard's new version of
The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov's daring, droll meditation on
bourgeois materialism and what remains in its wake.
Cast: Simon Russell Beale+, Michael Braun+, Selina Cadell+,
Morven Christie+, Sinéad Cusack+, Richard Easton§, Rebecca Hall+,
Josh Hamilton§, Ethan Hawke§, Paul Jesson+, Aaron Krohn§, Dakin
Matthews§, Mark Nelson§, Charlotte Parry§, Gary Powell+, Tobias
Segal§, Jessica Pollert Smith+, Hannah Stokely+
Musicians: Dan Lipton, Dana Lyn
Stage Management: Jane Pole, Kevin Bertolacci, Cat Fiabane+
+ Indicates that artists are appearing with the permission of
Actors' Equity Association.
§ Indicates that artists are appearing with the permission of UK
Equity, incorporating Variety Artistes' Federation, pursuant to an
exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. The
Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its
assistance of this production.
Co-commissioned by and produced in association with Athens &
Epidaurus Festival, The Edge® Auckland (NZ), Ruhrfestspiele
Recklinghausen, The Singapore Repertory Theatre, Teatro Español de
Madrid