Lopahkin pulled me aside backstage. He noted that I had traded out his beautiful metal buttons for plastic ones. Lopakhin is the change-agent in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The admirer of the aristocrats/increasingly wealthy merchant/son of a peasant/grandson of a serf would definitely care about what his buttons told you about who he is and where he …
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