蜜芽传媒

Chekhov鈥檚 timeless masterpiece translates easily to Palestine in 1948 as an aristocratic family try to hang on to their estate during partition.

Madame Selma, (Ranevskaya in the original), arrives at her ancestral home in Yafa just as the British are withdrawing from Palestine and the state of Israel is being established. Armed Zionist militia, soon to become the IDF, are roaming the country and will surely turn their attention to Selma鈥檚 house and its beloved Cherry Orchard.

Hassan Abdulrazzak鈥檚 adaptation retains Chekhov鈥檚 story of a family struggling to cope with the change that threatens to sweep them away and is given an urgent resonance by setting the story against the seismic events of 1948, whose consequences echo down the years to this day.

The Yafa Cherry Orchard adapted by Hassan Abdulrazzak

Selma: Lara Sawalha
Gamal: Sami Abu Wardeh
Yousef: Philip Arditti
Tariq: Ammar Haj Ahmad
Said: Nayef Rashed
Alia: Sara Masry
Widad: Sarah Agha
Colonel Wilson: Joel Samuels
Khalid: Motaz Malhees
Dunya: Sofia Asir
Yassir :Joe Haddad
Salah: Zaydun Khalaf
Firas: Raad Rawi

Original Composition: Kareem Samara
Traditional music performed and arranged by Kareem Samara (Oud and percussion) and Gabriel Polley (Ney Baladi)
Consultant: Gardner Thompson
Production Assistant: Lucie Regan
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris

A Holy Mountain production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4