We have just seen a magnificent stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. (See my review of the book here).
The performance was a special event for the Auckland Writers Festival, and this is the blurb:
A theatrical triumph and an intriguing exposition of art and identity: personal, sexual, national. Acclaimed British theatre company Dyad Productions present their latest offering – an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 satire Orlando: A Biography – with their usual elan. The ageless, gender-fluid, immortal fictional poet Orlando, played by Rebecca Vaughan, sweeps through four centuries of English history. Vaughan’s turn is “towering” (The Scotsman), surpassing her artistry in previous Festival favourites Austen’s Women, Dalloway and Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones.
Supported by Platinum Patrons Julienne Brown & David McLean.
Rebecca Vaughan was superb. In a one-woman performance lasting 90 minutes, she captured the playful…
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