The cherry orchard,

The Cherry Orchard is a four-act play set on a Russian country estate at the turn of the twentieth century. Madame Ranevskaya returns from years abroad to her family home, where the beloved orchard stands. The family is deeply in debt, and the estate is threatened with sale. A practical neighbour, Lopakhin, the son of former serfs now grown wealthy, urges a plan to save them, but the family finds it hard to act. Chekhov called the play a comedy, though it is touched with sadness. It portrays a changing society, the pull of memory and the uneasy arrival of a new age, and it remains one of the most performed plays in the world.