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Adult Film, in association with BKE Productions, present a radically reimagined production of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard at Rutgers Presbyterian Church. Directed by Ryan Czerwonko, this version turns Chekhov’s crumbling estate into a surreal, intoxicating world somewhere between Fellini and Lynch, set within the ballroom of the mind. Love, lust, class, comedy, magic and darkness entwine in a theatrical fever dream where anything can happen. 

Time goes by so slowly/life is a whirlwind… Lubov is lured from her hedonistic life in Paris back to her estate by the promise of innocence and purity that her Russian homeland holds. As she is distracted by her dysfunctional family, upstart servants, dreams and fantasies, The Cherry Orchard is in danger of being sold. 

This is the story of a woman hurling herself after love and destroying everything in her path. With a cast of emerging, established and legendary theatre artists, the production takes influence from the films of Fellini and David Lynch and the music of Madonna and Franz Ferdinand. This multimedia, anachronistic version of the play locates itself not in an orchard or a nursery but a ballroom of the mind.