DescriptionChekhov's masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason. Starring (in alphabetical order): Jordan Baker as Charlotta John Chardiet as Yasha Michael Cristofer as Lopakhin Tim DeKay as Trofimov Charles Durning as Feers Hector Elizondo as Gaev Jeffery Jones as Pischick Christy Keefe as Anya Marsha Mason as Ranevskaya Amy Pietz as Varya Joey Slotnick as Yepikodov Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha…
DescriptionThe patrician Bevan family clings to British tradition while wrestling with taxes, tree blight, and family skeletons. Rory, the youngest son, runs a business that rents out the grand mansions for weddings and tours to help the owners pay upkeep on their dilapidated estates. Enter Maggie, an American TV journalist sent to London to do an expose on the aristocracy. She hires Rory to get her access to the most private families. The two immediately clash, bickering until a romance springs up where it seemed least likely. A delightfully funny love story exploring loyalty and family, Hunting Unicorns is ultimately about having the courage to risk everything in the pursuit of what really counts.
DescriptionA BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's stunning, tragi-comic novel of the lives, loves, and mores of the English aristocracy. The action moves between 1944 and 1923, to tell the story of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the decadent Sebastian Flyte.
DescriptionBehind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy, and ironically it was their blueprint for conquest that the French Revolution was to utilize…
