The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) today announces the full cast for Laura Wade’s The Cherry Orchard from the play by Anton Chekhov, directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey. 

Joining previously announced Kenneth Branagh as Lopakhin, Helen Hunt as Madame Ranyevskaya and Bill Pullman as Gaev are Chumisa Dornford-May as Anya, Alfred Enoch as Trofimov, Esther Smith as Varya and Sophie Stone as Sharlotta.  

The production will open in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from Friday 10 July to Saturday 29 August, with press night on Tuesday 21 July.

This new version of Chekhov’s final play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade (Posh, The Riot Club, Rivals) sees Wade reunited with RSC Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey following their critically acclaimed production of The Constant Wife, which premiered in the Swan Theatre last summer and the Olivier-Award winning Home, I’m Darling. 

Alfred Enoch returns to the RSC following his recent success in Henry V and Pericles, while Chumisa Dornford-May makes her RSC debut as Anya. Esther Smith plays Varya and Sophie Stone joins the cast as Sharlotta, both making their RSC debut. 

The full company comprises: Rob Alexander-Adams (Passer By), Kenneth Branagh (Lopakhin), Chumisa Dornford-May (Anya), Michael Elwyn (Firs), Alfred Enoch (Trofimov), Amber Gadd (Dunyasha), Guy Henry (Pishchik), Helen Hunt (Ranyevskaya), Erin Siobhan Hutching (Offstage Understudy), Julian Moore-Cook (Yasha), Bill Pullman (Gaev), Andy Rush (Yepikhodov), Esther Smith (Varya) and Sophie Stone (Sharlotta). 

Joining Tamara Harvey on the creative team are Writer, Laura Wade; Set & Costume Designer, Anna Fleischle; Lighting Designer, Aideen Malone; Composer, Laura Rossi; Sound Designer, Claire Windsor; Movement Director, Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster; Fight Director, Alex Payne; Musical Director, Tomek Pieczora and Casting Director, Charlotte Sutton CDG.