Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation.
Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes through time, from wars and revolutions, to the decadence of the Restoration and the rise of industrial capitalism under Queen Victoria, to modernity – and as the world changes, so does Orlando. Who are they – woman? man? or something which defies all the old orders?
This is a bold new version of Woolf’s cheekiest, most brilliant creation from creators Elsie Yager and Carissa Licciardello (A Room of One’s Own, Scenes from the Climate Era). It’s a visionary text, a century old, pinging with ideas about very present themes – gender, imperialism, nature, technology – and this fresh team of game-changing artists are, in some ways, the very people Woolf and her Orlando dreamed of: Shannen Alyce Quan (Holding the Man, Fangirls), Nyx Calder (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and Janet Anderson (Overflow, Mercury Fur). One for those who like their theatre theatrical and want to see the world through a new lens. – Eamon Flack, Artistic Director of Belvoir St Theatre.
August 30 – September 31
https://belvoir.com.au/productions/orlando/
