Class 12 Presents -"The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov

Name: Class 12 Presents -"The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov
Start: 2025-09-10T09:00:00+12:00
Location: Lopdell House

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

Lopdell House | Auckland, AU

🌸 Class 12 Presents: "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov 🌸
📅 Show Dates:
Wednesday 10 September 2025 – 7:00pm
Thursday 11 September 2025 – 7:00pm
Friday 12 September 2025 – 7:00pm
🎟 Tickets:
Adults: $20
Students: $15
📩 Book tickets through the school office or email [email protected]📩

🌸 This year Class 12 have taken on one of the most challenging and beautiful plays of world theatre, Anton Chekhov’s "The Cherry Orchard".
🎭 Konstantin Stanislavski directed the first performance of the play in 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre, a production that angered Chekhov because he felt that Stanislavski had pushed the interpretation too far towards tragedy. Since then, all directors have struggled to find the right emotional balance as the tone and tempo shift moment by moment.
A family are pushed to sell their estate and their beloved cherry orchard as they are beset by forces of social, environmental and political change. The characters whirl around the problem and bring their emotional baggage, colliding, colluding and sometimes briefly and poignantly connecting.
We are pushing the comedy as far as we can, finding the farcical clues in the text and working with the extreme elements in the characters. But Chekhov also demands emotional depth and range as powerful feelings surface and are quickly drowned in the flow of daily existence.
💫 Whatever inner lives we lead, life presses on in all its real random craziness and time holds us all to account.
The play raises questions of change, freedom, and destiny that resonate strongly with the Waldorf Steiner philosophy, where art is not simply about performance but is a path towards self-knowledge. The play asks: How do we let go of what has shaped us, and how do we meet what is coming?
🌟 We invite you to share in the culminating dramatic work of Class 12’s school journey, reflecting the depth of their artistic growth and the collaborative spirit that has been fostered through the years.