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Charlotta Ivanovna
Charlotta
The household's governess, a former circus performer of unknown parentage and nationality who does card tricks and ventriloquism at the Act Three ball; her recurring lament that she does not know who she is or where she is from gives the play's theme of rootlessness and displacement its most literal expression.
Reading notes
- The Cherry Orchard §300 salto mortale
Italian for "deadly leap," the standard period term (borrowed into Russian and English alike) for a somersault or backflip performed as a circus or acrobatic stunt -- part of Charlotta's account of her childhood touring with performer parents, and consistent with the card tricks and ventriloquism she performs at the Act Three ball.
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The Cherry Orchard
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