Orlando

Orlando lives for almost four centuries, is young, intelligent, and handsome. As a rising aristocrat at the Elizabethan court and the queen's toyboy, he falls in love with the daughter of a Russian ambassador. After being abandoned by her, he arranges a transfer to Constantinople as a diplomat. There, Orlando experiences a political uprising and falls into a trance. When he awakens, Orlando is a woman. This surprise inspires a witty and ironic exploration of the changing zeitgeist, female role models, and the growing number of possible and contradictory “selves.“

Virginia Woolf wrote ORLANDO as a declaration of love to the glamorous author Vita Sackville-West. Swedish director Therese Willstedt stages Woolf's never-aging, fantastical pseudo-biography as a monologue for an ensemble, a play of the imagination, a plea for boundlessness, free self-expression, and fluid identities.

duration: 2 hours - no interval

programme

Orlando
nach dem Roman von Virginia Woolf
In einer Fassung von Tom Silkeberg, Deutsch von Melanie Walz und Ursel Allenstein