The Cherry Orchard
Set and Costume Designer
What is it like to lose your home? This new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, created in collaboration with world-renowned Russian director and the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company, centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in this inventive re-interpretation. One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?
“In Wilma’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ the set design is the star”
-Julia M. Klein, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“This Russian-American collaboration comes across as a disorienting mash-up. Is it ingenious or a mess? The answer is yes”
-Toby Zinman, American Theatre Magazine
“A new off-the-wall character has been added by Krymov and his set design partner, Irina Kruzhilina: a towering, sentient train station destination board to which the actors turn for advice and that constantly spells out ironic commentary”
-Peter Marks, The Washington Post
“This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is chaotic and beautiful and astoundingly funny and achingly sad. ”
-Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey, Broad Street Review
Creative Team
Director and Co-Set designer
Dmitry Krymov
Sound Designer
Daniel Ison
Lighting Designer
Thom Weaver
Movement Coordinator
Jungwoong Kim
Cultural Liaison
Yury Urnov
Location
The Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia, 2022
Scenic Drafting
Models
