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In a version by Tom Silkeberg, translated by Melanie Walz and Ursel Allenstein



Orlando lives for almost four centuries, is young, intelligent, and handsome. As an aspiring nobleman at the Elizabethan court and toyboy of the queen, he falls in love with the daughter of a Russian envoy. After being abandoned by her, he allows himself to be transferred as a diplomat to Constantinople. There, Orlando experiences a political uprising and falls into a trance. When he wakes up from it, Orlando is a woman. This surprise inspires a witty and ironic exploration of the changing spirit of the times, female roles, and the growing number of possible and contradictory "selves."



Virginia Woolf wrote ORLANDO as a love declaration to the glamorous author Vita Sackville-West. The Swedish director Therese Willstedt stages Woolf's never-aging fantastic pseudo-biography as a monologue for an ensemble, as a play of imagination, as a plea for boundlessness, free self-realization, and fluid identities.



Direction: Therese Willstedt

Text version: Tom Silkeberg

Stage and light: Mårten K. Axelsson
Costumes: Maja Mirkovic

Music: Emil Assing Høyer

Dramaturgy: Jeroen Versteele

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