Orlando

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Event Orlando
Venue Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, NSW
First Date 9 November 2015
Last Date 19 December 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando has been described as the longest and most charming love letter in literature. Inspired by Woolf’s affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, it is part biography, part fabulation, part poetry.

Playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play) brings Woolf’s novel to the stage with all the luscious lyricism and playfulness of the original. As the story unfolds, we sail effortlessly across five centuries, taking in London and Constantinople, Russian beauties and Romanian aristocrats, always with a wink in the eye. The adventures pil
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Matthew Backer Actor
Eamon Farren Actor
John Gaden Actor
Luisa Hastings Edge Actor
Garth Holcombe Actor
Jacqueline McKenzie Actor
Anthony Taufa Actor
Alice Osborne Assistant Director
Ross Graham Assistant Lighting Designer
Vanessa Martin Assistant Stage Manager
Alan John Composer
Renée Mulder Designer
Sarah Goodes Director
Kip Williams Dramaturg/e
David Tongs Head Mechanist
Damien Cooper Lighting Designer
Sarah Ruhl Playwright
John Colvin Production Manager
Steve Francis Sound Composer
Luke Davis Sound Operator/Engineer
Minka Stevens Stage Manager
Charmian Gradwell Voice Coach
Works
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2015/orlando
Brochure Sydney Opera House What's On Brochure, Oct/Nov 2015
Programme Private Collection
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 110555