The Cherry Orchard (or The Lady’s Garden)

An innovative, intimate monologue drawn from the famous play by Anton Chekhov. This version focuses on the character of Yermolai Lopakhin — the merchant who ends up buying the emblematic estate and who embodies, with precision, the ever-fascinating idea of social ascent. Àurea Márquez, one of Catalonia’s most versatile and recognised actresses, brings this controversial figure to life with a performance that digs into his most intimate and sensitive layers. Beyond the familiar story — the inevitable sale of the cherry orchard, the end of an aristocratic era and the arrival of a new bourgeois order — this rewrite centres on the most human dimension of its protagonist. The audience meets a character marked by deep lacks and wounds from the past; someone born and raised in a world of misery and humiliation that imprints on him an indestructible hunger for advancement and, at the same time, resentment. Lopakhin confesses directly to the public his insecurities, his lack of education, the pain of unrequited love and, of course, how material success has failed to heal the affective deficiencies that define him. With an austere yet emotionally charged staging, the monologue alternates pa…

Voy Palma — The Cherry Orchard (or The Lady’s Garden)