"I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another."
Have you ever lived outside yourself? Have you ever dreamed of escaping your identity, yearned to leave behind those labels placed on you: loud or quiet, male or female, straight or queer? Have you ever been altered by someone else? Have you ever been reimagined?
Lucy Roslyn's play is the story of a person looking for escape, a person desperate to be changed.
In 1928 Virginia Woolf imagined her own freedom through the character of Orlando. Heartbroken by her affair with Vita Sackville-West, Woolf created a young boy born in Elizabethan England, who lives and loves, writes and rewrites through four hundred years, ending her days as a woman in the twentieth century.
Woolf's novel strains at the boundaries of identity: are we any one thing? Or are our selves "stacked like dinner plates", one on top of the other?
Written and performed by Lucy Roslyn (PENNYROYAL, Finborough Theatre) and directed by JMK Award winner Josh Roche (MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE, Young Vic; HOME, Chichester Festival Theatre), Orlando returns after acclaimed runs at VAULT Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Developed with Jamie Firth for BoonDog Theatre
Great theatre, lovely young team, brilliant supportive diverse programming, the only theatre I can think of that is currently supporting so many theatremakers.
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