The Cherry Orchard

A performance as an architectural reconstruction of memory, with coordinates of lived experiences and scattered fragments of the habitat. A story of return, to the home of childhood, to the garden of an inner beauty and innocence, as the only way to draw hope to create “other cherry trees”. The last heirs will attempt to reconstruct a lost earthly paradise through the topography of memory. When the house is no longer here. And when the garden is no longer here… they will have to blossom themselves, for one another. A small ode to personal loss. To every loss. To whoever and whatever is missing. To the lost paradise itself. The nostalgia of happiness. Life as a possibility that, if sung, if danced, if confessed, may even lead us to redemption. An anecdote, a funny story, a farce about God’s failure to give us a life that lasts forever.