Marin Theatre digs into Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’

Marin Theatre digs into Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’

“What makes a great play,” says Carey Perloff, “is that the issues it raises, and the world it evokes are so redolent of our own, that it gives us a perspective we don’t have when we write literally about our own time.”  The topic is Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” set at the turn of the 20th century. San Francisco resident Perloff—artistic director of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater from 1992 to 2018 and now a…