WHAT’S ON (Sydney): Orlando

WHAT’S ON (Sydney): Orlando
Image: Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa

DON’T miss this epic adventure across time and gender.

In Sydney Theatre Company’s new show, the magnetic Jacqueline McKenzie plays Virginia Woolf’s brilliant time travelling hero in the epic Orlando.

[showads ad=MREC]Adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl, this light-hearted and playful adaptation is a “magnificent celebration of transcending as well as trans-gending” (The Telegraph, UK).

As Orlando’s story unfolds, audiences glide effortlessly from Elizabethan England to Constantinople, from Russian beauties to Romanian aristocrats, always with a wink in the eye.

Orlando abandons herself to five centuries of change with an insatiable appetite to discover what it means to live fully in the present, in her own skin and in her own time. The adventures pile up, as do the lovers, and somewhere along the line our hero becomes a heroine.

Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa
Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa

Sydney Theatre Company resident director Sarah Goodes (Switzerland) and designer Renee Mulder (Battle of Waterloo) have created a bold, contemporary new production at Sydney Opera House for this light-hearted, gender-bending frolic through the ages.

On until December 19 at Sydney Opera House. Book your tickets now at sydneytheatre.com.au

Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa
Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa
Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa
Photos by Prudence Upton featuring cast members Matthew Backer, Luisa Hastings Edge, Garth Holcombe, John Gaden, Jacqueline McKenzie, Anthony Taufa
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