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?

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Press

“In Wilma’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ the set design is the star”

 -Julia M. Klein, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“a series of poignant and/or absurdist moments strung together like the colored lights hung for Ranyevska’s homecoming”

-Toby Zinman, American Theatre

“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