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Orlando

Orlando

Cryptic's ambitious new music theatre production of Virginia Woolf's esteemed and poetic novel

Following a young man's life across the globe, through love affairs and intrigues, and his transformations of fortune, love and even gender, Orlando has been described as ‘the longest and most charming love letter in literature’, relishing an era where opulence and hedonism were savoured. Read more …

A CATS 2011 nominee.

More information on this production is available at www.cryptic.org.uk.

The critical consensus

The overall effect is dazzling; and so rich in texture, and in the layers of meaning surrounding this remarkable story, that it demands to be seen not once, but many times.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 03/10/2010

As a radio play it might work very well, but as a fully staged theatre piece, let alone a music-theatre piece, it doesn't begin to justify itself.

**(*)(*)(*)Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 03/10/2010

All about engaging the senses...not about making sense.

Michael Cox, Onstage Scotland, 03/10/2010

Superbly acted by Edinburgh-born Worrall, Boyd’s Orlando is a promising production sadly let down by its choice of music.

***(*)(*)Amy Taylor, The Journal, 14/10/2010


Features about Orlando

Orlando Blooming: a dream becomes reality

Kirstin Innes, The Scotsman, 29/09/2010

Where and when?

St George's West, Edinburgh from Friday August 5, 2011, until Monday August 29, 2011. 4.00pm. More info: http://www.remarkable-arts-ltd.com/

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