the character Charlotta Ivanovna playing the governess in this play as prototypical of characters Chekhov had visited in many of his plays. As Goldman states: "Everyone in Chekhov resembles Charlotta Ivanovna... with her card tricks, and ventriloquism. Each in his own way attempts a kind of magic, a spiritual mumbo-jumbo, a little number designed to charm or placate or simply elegize reality – the reality of life slipping away, of the dissolving process. They are sad clowns, redeemed only by being fully felt as people, and not the comic icons they are always threatening to become – failed shamans, whose magic does not work though it has cost them everything to perform." The Japanese manga Sakura no Sono (1985-86) and its live-action film adaptations are about a drama group in a girls-only private high school putting on a production of The Cherry Orchard. The play has a role in the comedy film Henry's Crime (2011). Editions English translations References External links Full text of The Cherry Orchard Project Gutenberg eText, English translations of several Chekhov plays, including The Cherry Orchard A public domain version of the play (English translation) [http://www.shmoop.com/cherry-orchard/ The Cherry Orchard] study guide, themes, quotes, teacher resources Russian plays Cherry Orchard, The 1904 plays