Orlando single work   drama  
Note: Adapted by Julia Britton from the novel, Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Orlando
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'No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His form combined in one the strength of a man and a woman's grace Orlando lives through five centuries and many disguises. He is page to Queen Elizabeth I, beau at the Court of King James, Ambassador to the pompous palaces of Constantinople. There, he undergoes a miraculous transformation. While revolution explodes around him he sleeps for days and finds on waking that he has become a woman: "Same person, just different sex!" Orlando as a woman is as beautiful, sensuous and unfashionably irrepressible as when she was a man. Times change, but Orlando's youth is unceasing. Though the Wits of the eighteenth century bore her to tears and the crinolines of the nineteenth threaten to engulf her, Orlando bursts into the twenty-first century still full of energy and irreverence.' Source: www.australianstage.com.au/ (Sighted 07/01/2009).

Production Details

  • Playreading is presented by La Mama Theatre & Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre as part of 2009 Midsumma Festival, La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton, 24 January 2009. Director: Robert Chuter.

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Works about this Work

Harden Up, Says Seasoned Playwright Rosalie Higson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 January 2008; (p. 3)
Harden Up, Says Seasoned Playwright Rosalie Higson , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 January 2008; (p. 3)
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