It has been revealed that the play "The Cherry Orchard," which was performed in December last year and starred Yuki Amami and Inoue Yoshio, and was directed by KERA, will be broadcast and streamed on WOWOW this spring.
Based on Chekhov's classic play, the play attracted attention for being written and directed by KERA. Set in the mansion of a Russian aristocrat in the late 19th century, the play depicts the mistress who clings to past glory until she loses her fortune, while intertwining the intentions of her family and servants. In addition to Amami and Inoue, Sakurako Ohara, Tamaki Ogawa, Ryoyoshi Arakawa, Kosuke Suzuki, and Kazuyuki Asano also starred. The play received high praise and KERA was also selected for the Outstanding Director Award at the Yomiuri Theater Awards.
◇Story
Late 19th century Imperial Russia. The mistress of the mansion, Madame Ranevskaya (Yuki Amami), who has been abroad for a long time, returns to the mansion surrounded by cherry trees for the first time in several years. Her daughter Anya(Ohara Sakurako), who went to Paris to pick her up, her brother Gaev (Yamazaki Hajime), and her adopted daughter Varya (Minemura Rie), who has been running the mansion while she was away, are all happy to see her again, but in fact the mansion's finances are in dire straits...
Lopakhin (Arakawa Yoshiyoshi), the son of a former serf who is now a successful merchant, proposes a plan to save his former master, but Madame Ranevskaya and Gaev continue to spend lavishly. Whether they know it or not, the neighboring landowner asks for a loan, and the maids are busy with a love triangle. Trofimov (Inoue Yoshio), a university student who was the tutor of the Madame Ranevskaya's late son, passionately speaks to Anya about his ideal vision for the coming era. As various human dramas unfold, the day arrives when the mortgaged estate is to be auctioned. What will become of the mansion known as the "Cherry Orchard"?
