The Cherry Orchard

Pronunciations

While this play takes place in Russia, our convention is that the cast will use their own accents in performance. For this reason, there is no reason to call special attention to the pronunciation of Russian words by leaning too heavily into the authentic Russian pronunciations. The Russian names below have been anglicized to better match the accents in our cast. Often, the stress pattern for a name has changed from the original Russian.

Although we won’t be using them, for those who are interested original Russian pronunciations can be found at the International Dialects of English Archive.

Words and phrases that are foreign within the world of the play (e.g., French/German/Italian) retain their original pronunciations. Please feel free to make choices about how fluent your character is in these other languages!

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