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‘The Cherry Orchard’ gets New York laughing

Korea Herald correspondent

NEW YORK — “I went to New York. It was an amazing city. A perfect place to live as an alcoholic.”

A burst of laughter rippled through the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

The line comes from Song Do-young, the heroine of Simon Stone’s Korean-language adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” played by Jeon Do-yeon. Do-young is recalling the 10 years she spent in New York after the death of her son — a detail that, in this version, replaces Chekhov’s Paris.

It was an unusually fitting joke for a play making its North American premiere in New York. A story that began in Seoul had finally arrived in the very city so prominent in its dialogue. And audiences there got the joke.

When Do-young describes New York as a place where people talk openly about sex, “almost like a national sport,” another wave of laughter rises. So does one about the “people all over Manhattan who do nothing but talk about their startups.” Later, references to a Brooklyn loft, the High Line, the Whitney and even the…