Ben
Brantley

January 16, 2009

"It feels right that the proportions are all wrong in Sam Mendes’s seriously comic production of “The Cherry Orchard,” which opened on Wednesday night at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From the play’s opening scene, in which full-size grown-ups sit on child-size chairs in the dusty nursery of a too-large country house, a sense of scale gone haywire permeates this enjoyable maiden offering from the newly established Bridge Project, a trans-Atlantic collaboration of British and American theater artists produced by the Academy, the Old Vic of London and Neal Street Productions.."