August 8 - 24

Secret House presents

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

Written by Gary Owen

Directed by Anthony Skuse

An AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE & a reimagining of Chekhov’s classic

“What is better. That you and your family have a lovely orchard to wander around or that a hundred families have homes.”

Pembrokeshire, 1982. Things are going to change.

Bloumfield sits on the sun-kissed south Pembrokeshire coast; a rambling, ramschackle old manor house where Rainey raised her children, surrounded by golden beaches and lush green orchards. But the death of her beloved son and husband sent Rainey fleeing to London, abandoning what remained of her family. Now, with the bank threatening to repossess, Rainey's daughters drag her back to Bloumfield. Rainey will have to face her ghosts - and her furious daughters - or lose everything.

This radical reworking of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard places the action in early 80s Wales, at the dawn of another revolution - the Thatcher regime.

★★★★★ “a gloriously inventive reimagining… [and] a painfully beautiful portrait of the homes we leave and the ghosts that remain” – The Stage, ★★★★★ “thoroughly engrossing” – What’s On Stage, ★★★★★ “a triumph” – Get The Chance, ★★★★★ – The Morning Star