Chekhov · The Cherry Orchard · Act 1

Orchard will be sold

Duologue

Mixed

2–4 min

Family

Money

Disillusionment

Love

Anya returns home from Paris to tell Varya about their mother's profligacy and their financial ruin, learning the cherry orchard will be sold; Varya expresses her frustration about her unrequited love and her longing for a life of pilgrimage.

VARYA

Well, you’ve come, glory be to God. Home again. My darling is back again! My pretty one is back again!

ANYA

I did have an awful time, I tell you.

VARYA

I can just imagine it!

ANYA

I went away in Holy Week; it was very cold then. Charlotta talked the whole way and would go on performing her tricks. Why did you…

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