 Event |
Orlando
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| Venue |
Malthouse Tower Theatre, Southbank, VIC |
| Umbrella Event |
Melbourne Festival 2012 / Helium 2012 |
| First Date |
12 October 2012 |
| Last Date |
27 October 2012 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
Yes |
| Description |
Theatrical mavericks THE RABBLE bring us a hallucinatory reworking of Virginia Woolf's classic gender-bending parable. The tale remains the same: the immortal Orlando is a young man, a hedonist and rake, a poet and lover, who awakens one day transformed into a young woman. Inspired by Chopin, astrophysics and the Great Frost of 1709, THE RABBLE have stripped Woolf's Orlando down to a stark cosmological painting. This Orlando drifts through space instead of time, through galaxies instead of centuries, to explore the dark passages of gender, sexuality and fragmented identity. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Adaptation
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| Subjects |
Gender
Sexual Identity
Sexuality
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Resources |
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| Works |
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| Text Nationality |
England
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Programme |
Melbourne Festival 2012 |
| Web |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
107160 |
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