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Act I, Part 1

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Chekhov, Anton. Plays of Anton Chekhov, second series, translated and with introduction by Julius West. Duckworth, 1915.

• The Cherry Orchard was written in 1903 and is the last work produced by playwright Anton Chekhov.

• The play is comprised of four acts.

• Act I is set in a room still called the nursery. One door leads to Anya’s room. It is May and the cherry trees can be seen outside flowering on a chilly morning.

• Lopakhin enters and states that the train has arrived to Dunyasha who says it is almost 2:00 a.m.

• Lopakhin berates himself for falling asleep when he had meant to meet the arrivals at the station.

• Lopakhin gives exposition of his backstory, stating that when he was a boy of 15, his father got drunk and punched him, making his...

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