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The Cherry Orchard Written by Anton Chekhov Adapted/translated by John Christopher Jones Directed by Ryan Czerwonko Presented by Adult Film in association with BKE Productions at Rutgers Presbyterian Church 236 W 73 St., Manhattan, NYC September 18-October 12, 2025 Ryan Czerwonko and Megan Metrikin in The Cherry Orchard . Photo by Joey Damore. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is replete with hauntings: the owner of the estate on which the titular orchard sits is reminded of the drowning death of her young son by the return of his tutor and mistakes a white shape in the orchard for her dead mother; the estate, and indeed the nation, are haunted by the memories of their exploited serfs (the play was written just two years before the First Russian Revolution in 1905); and the ghosts of indiscretions and lost youth dog multiple characters. Adult Film+Theatre's fantastic new production of The Cherry Orchard , which makes its debut after a yearlong development process, embraces a...

Sea Gull Written by Anton Chekhov Translated by John Christopher Jones Directed by Ryan Czerwonko Presented by Adult Film at Rutgers Presbyterian Church (236 W 73rd St., Manhattan, NYC), May 8-June 1, 2024, and Stone Circle Theatre (59-14 70th Ave., Queens, NYC), June 2, 2024 The cast of Sea Gull . Source: https://www.adultfilm.nyc/ Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull (1895) was unquestionably innovative in its time, becoming a milestone in world drama, and Adult Film's new production of the Chekhov classic, Sea Gull , channels that innovatory spirit in a fleet, engrossing staging. Using a new translation by film and theater veteran John Christopher Jones, Sea Gull opens with a filmed segment that would fit comfortably in an arthouse film and that draws from the work's abortive play-within-a-play, a recontextualization that invites hearing its imagery of the cold emptiness of extinction, the horror of material existence, and the contrast between ever-changing matter and ever...

Adult Film , a Brooklyn-based theatre company, film studio, and actor training center, is currently presenting Sea Gull , a new version of Anton Chekhov's play, at Rutgers Presbyterian Church for a limited run in the Upper West Side. Originally set to end on May 26th, this run has been extended to June 2nd after a sold-out first weekend. AF artistic director Ryan Czerwonko directs and plays Konstantin. The cast features Mia Vallet as Nina, Megan Metrikin as Arkadina, Christian Ryan as Trigorin, Lauren Guglielmello as Masha, Simon Fortin as Sorin, Ira Gamerman as Medvedenko, Christopher Jon Martin as Dorn, Ellie Mae Miller as Paulina, and Peter Rinaldi as Shamrayev, with Rob Riordan understudying. AF is a group of working-class artists who set out in May 2023 with a mission to work on the play for one whole year, seemingly an impossible task in our fragmented hypermodern moment, while recording the process as part of a feature film documentary. With a focus ...