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Chekhov’s 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’s house and its beloved Cherry Orchard. Hassan Abdulrazzak’s adaptation retains Chekhov’s 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4