György Harag worked several times as a guest director in Yugoslavia and between 1978 and 1982 staged three of Chekhov’s plays at the Novi Sad Theatre, referred to by the critics as his Chekhov trilogy. Harag’s production of The Cherry Orchard, which premiered in 1979 as the middle piece of the trilogy – between Three sisters and Uncle Vanya – showed a modern, tragicomic interpretation of the dramatic text in a non-traditional visual setting. The production, which was delayed for several years, received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception from critics both in Yugoslavia and in Hungary and is regarded as one of the most defying productions in the history of the Novi Sad Theatre that helped to shape the profile of the institution. Using the Philther method, this study aims to analyse and reconstruct the production.