Orlando

Orlando

Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago

Sarah Ruhl, one of American theater’s most exciting young playwrights, adapts Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel about sex, love, and history. Often called the longest love letter in literary history, Woolf’s Orlando tells the story of an English nobleman who lives for hundreds of years before falling asleep and waking up as a woman. Directed by longtime Ruhl collaborator Jessica Thebus (The Clean House at Goodman Theatre, Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Steppenwolf), Orlando is told with humor and imagination, and it represents a step forward in Court’s ongoing commitment to contemporary translations and adaptations of classic works.

Thru - Apr 10, 2011