The Orchard
Synopsis
Six actors are brought together in a country house over one weekend to put on an improvised version of The Cherry Orchard. They are pleased to see each other again and begin to explore the house and talk about old times. They chat about the play and what they feel needs to be done during this weekend but as they cast themselves as suitable characters cracks begin to appear. They discuss the dramatic themes - longing for things past, decay, regret, loss, spite and jealousy which slowly and imperceptibly begin to take over the actors and their characters. Little do the actors realise they will be consumed by the play both as the characters, over which they argue, bitch, make alliances and betrayals, and as themselves, loving, jealous, spiteful, bullying human beings. What begins as a light-hearted weekend of theatrical fun gradually turns into a self-doubting and destructive scenario.
As they gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance will they ever be able to be friends again?
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 104 mins
- Format
- EXDCAM
- Director
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Lynda Myer-Bennett, Clive Myer 1st Feature
- Producer
- Lynda Myer-Bennett, Clive Myer
- Executive Producer
- Allan Niblo
- Editor
- Lynda Myer-Bennett, Clive Myer
- Screenwriter
- Lynda Myer-Bennett, Clive Myer
- Director of Photography
- Clive Myer
- Production Designer
- Lynda Myer-Bennett, Clive Myer
- Sound
- Lynda Myer-Bennett
- Composer
- Andy Saunders
- Principal cast
- Lucy Black, Paul Currier, Daisy Douglas, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Richard Neale, Dan Winter
- Second Unit Camera
- George Myer
- Sound Design
- Carl Boland
- Sound Re-recordist
- Jules Woods
- Postproduction Sound Facility
- Technicolor Sound Services
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