Stoppard, Mendes Bring Chekhov to BAM
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A new version of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” adapted by Tom Stoppard and directed by Sam Mendes, will inaugurate the 2009 season of the Bridge Project, a transatlantic collaboration between the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions. The season will also include a production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.”
The plays will run at BAM between January and March 2009, then continue on an international tour that will run between March and May. The tour will include performances at DBS Arts Centre in Singapore, the EDGE Performing Arts Center in Auckland, Teatro Español in Madrid, and Ruhfestspiele Recklinghausen in Germany before arriving in May at London’s Old Vic, where it will run through August.
The announced “Cherry Orchard” cast will include Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, Richard Easton, Rebecca Hall, Josh Hamilton, and Ethan Hawke.
