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Orlando
Wed 3 – Sat 6 September 2025
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by Sarah Ruhl
Adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf
Directed by Binah Schatsky
Orlando is an Odyssean-style coming-of-age epic, a surrealist dreamscape, a campy, anticolonial satire, and a liberated queer utopia. It is also one of the greatest love letters of all time.
Its title character, inspired by Woolf’s great love Vita Sackville West, embarks on a centuries-long fantastical adventure, meets a series of parodied historical and literary figures, changes gender, and finds, loses and ultimately re-finds love. It’s a journey that traverses boundaries of time, place, gender, and sexuality and asks what it means to find (or is it construct?) one’s identity and a sense of belonging. This ensemble staging of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation will lean into the playfulness, imagination, individuality, and joy at the centre of Woolf’s original work.
ORLANDO was commissioned by Joyce Piven and was first produced at the Piven Theater Workshop, directed by Joyce Piven. It was subsequently produced at the Actor’s Gang in Los Angeles, produced by Tim Robins, and directed by Joyce Piven. It was produced in New York at Classic Stage Company, produced by Brian Kullick, directed by Rebecca Taichman.