Event |
Orlando
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Venue |
The Loft, Kelvin Grove, QLD |
Umbrella Event |
Brisbane Festival 2014 |
First Date |
16 September 2014 |
Opening Date |
16 September 2014 |
Last Date |
20 September 2014 |
Dates Estimated |
No |
Status |
Professional |
World Premiere |
No |
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 |
Website |
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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Further Information |
Orlando was originally presented as part of Malthouse Theatre's Helium season.
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Event Status |
Completed
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Data Source |
Source |
Description |
Web |
Brisbane Festival website |
Programme |
Brisbane Festival 2014 programme |
Production Company |
The Rabble's website |
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Event Identifier
| 107981 |
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