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The Cherry Orchard: Kenneth Branagh Takes Centre Stage in ‘Star-Studded’ Production
Kenneth Branagh leads a star-studded cast in Chekhov's play, with Helen Hunt and Bill Pullman joining Laura Wade's script and Tamara Harvey's direction.
“You wait 30 years for a Royal Shakespeare Company appearance from Kenneth Branagh and then two turn up at once,” said Claire Allfree in The Telegraph. Having starred as Prospero in “The Tempest” earlier this summer, Branagh is back with an “energetic, charismatic, touching performance” as Lopakhin – the son of a serf who has become a successful businessman – in a new version of “The Cherry Orchard”, adapted by Laura Wade. ‘Broad comedy and path…