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Playwright Sarah Ruhl adapts Virginia Woolf’s Orlando—once called “the longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West. Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. This theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time and gender features the one and only Taylor Mac in the title role.
Orlando further illuminates Ruhl’s ability to examine subjects as vast as mortality and gender with levity and wit—and to adapt books into dynamic theater. In this production from Signature Theatre, directed by recently-appointed Rattlestick Theatre Artistic Director Will Davis, Taylor Mac plays the era-hopping, gender-shifting protagonist. Mac is no stranger to time traveling and irreverently breaking open the constraints of historical norms and musty mores, as the visionary theater artist famously did in the universally acclaimed A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.
Orlando further illuminates Ruhl’s ability to examine subjects as vast as mortality and gender with levity and wit—and to adapt books into dynamic theater. In this production from Signature Theatre, directed by recently-appointed Rattlestick Theatre Artistic Director Will Davis, Taylor Mac plays the era-hopping, gender-shifting protagonist. Mac is no stranger to time traveling and irreverently breaking open the constraints of historical norms and musty mores, as the visionary theater artist famously did in the universally acclaimed A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.
Cast
Taylor Mac
Director
Will Davis
Written by
Sarah Ruhl
