Virginia Woolf s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman takes to Belvoir s stage in a joyous new adaptation. Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes through time, from wars and revolutions, to the decadence of the Restoration and the rise of industrial capitalism under Queen Victoria, to modernity and as the world changes, so does Orlando. Who are they woman? man? or something which defies all the old orders?

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