In 2010 the celebration of the 150 anniversary of the Great Russian writer A.P. Chekhov’s birthday will take place. On its threshold the Saratov Youth Theater is staging Chekhov’s play – “The Cherry Orchard”, which is a resumption of theater’s traditions. The history of the Saratov Youth Theater is keeping in its archives materials on the performances on A. P. Chekhov’s works. In 1954 and 1959 Yu. P. Kiselev staged two versions of “Three Sisters” and in 1983 the master staged the legendary “Seagull”. In 1999 was the last theater’s performance concerning A. P. Chekhov’s works – “Life is wonderful” performance based on his stories, staged by S. V. Puskepalis – Yu. P. Kiselev’s disciple.

The play “The Cherry Orchard” was written by Chekhov in 1903. During his work on the play A.P. Chekhov in his letters said about the play: “The play is appeared to be not a drama, but a comedy, even a farce in some episodes…” The director of the performance is Georgy Thkhivara. He graduated from GITIS in 1985, the last course of M. O. Knebel, he staged more than 80 performances in Russian and foreign theaters. In 2009 he became a main stage director in Omsk Academic Drama Theater. In any theater’s life there are always performances that are the significant events in theater’s history. For Saratov Kiselev Youth Theater the performance “The Uncle Dream” created by Georgy Thkhivara in 2007 is one of such. This performance is popular not only in Saratov. In autumn 2008 our theater toured in the USA (Virginia) with this performance.

Among the performance on the Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” creators there is a famous theater production designer Emile Kapelush (St. Petersburg), the award winner of  “The Gold Mask” prize, “The Gold Floodlight” prize, the prize “for the best production design” at the Theatre-Forum Festival in Manchester, the prize of the “Baltic House” Festival. He graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. Since 1976 till now he has been taking part in creation of more than 200 performances in St. Petersburg, Moscow and in other Russian towns and cities, in Georgia, in Baltic countries (Riga, Vilnius, Tallin);  Switzerland (Zurich, Bazel), Great Britain (Manchester), Bulgaria (Sofia), Germany (Hamburg), Finland (Helsinki), South Korea (Seul), USA (Maiami), China (Shanghais). He took part in international theatre project and festivals in France (Avignon), Germany (Berlin),  Great Britain (Manchester), South Korea (Seul), Germany (Stuttgart), France (Nice), etc.
Actors participating in the performance: RF People’s actor Yu. P. Osherov, RF Meritorious Actress RF State Award Laureate E.V. Vovnenko, RF Meritorious actor I.B. Volodarsky and other theater actors.
Actors:

Lubov Andreevna Ranevsky	Vovnenko Elena Vitalievna
Anya, her daughter	Sosedova Anna Vyacheslavovna
Varya, her adopted daughter	Vasilenko Yulia Yurievna Nikulina Svetlana Igorevna
Leonid Andreyevich Gaev, Mme. Ranevsky's brother	Emelyanov Valery Nikolayevich
Ermolai Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a merchant	Rotachkov Alexey Gennadievich
Peter Sergeevich Trofimov, a student	Kuzin Artem Evgenievich
Boris Borisovich Simeonov-Pichshik, a landowner	Karabanov Alexey Nikolayevich
Charlotta Ivanovna, a governess	Chupikova Tatyana Pavlovna
Simeon Panteleyevich Epikhodov, a clerk	Volodarskiy Ilya Borisovich
Dunyasha, a maidservant	Voloshina Zhanna Vasilievna
Fiers, an old footman, aged eighty-seven	Osherov Yury Petrovich
Yasha, a young footman	Bezrukov Nikita Yurievich
a Tramp	Shchedrin Anton Yurievich
Post-Office Clerk	Divlyatshin Ruslan Sergeevich
a Station-Master	Egorov Vladimir Vladimirovich