The Cherry Orchard. I did scene work from Uncle Vanya but never from The Cherry Orchard because I really wasn't engaged by the younger characters so much. I’m the perfect representative to talk about The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in 1903 and died in 1904. Bill Pullman and Michael Elwyn (firs in The Cherry Orchard) at Holy Trinity - find out what they are doing there in next week’s Herald.