Event

Update:

We will no longer be able to rehearse and perform this production of Orlando in April. Thank you to everyone for your interest and to our student cast and crew for their hard work. The students in THAR 275 will be working together on a creative project, taking inspiration from their rehearsals and engagement with this piece.

The Theatre Arts Program Edinburgh Project at the University of Pennsylvania Presents: 

Orlando
Written by Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Marcia Ferguson

Orlando, a charismatic and adventurous nobleman, enjoys all the comforts that life as a wealthy man offers…until he awakens as a woman, who is forced to adapt her bold, free-spirited demeanor to the strict and often degrading expectations of feminine behavior. This stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s time-traveling classic offers insight into her views of the rules governing women in her time, and the ground-breaking ways that she, through the character of Orlando, broke free of them.

Bruce Montgomery Theatre

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

April 23rd at 6:30pm*

April 24th at 6:30pm

*Opening night is free to the public. Following the performance there will be a reception and a talkback with Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director of the Wilma Theatre.

About the Edinburgh Project

The Theatre Arts Program's Edinburgh Project will perform Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando in April. Every other year, the Edinburgh Project performs a production in Philadelphia in the Spring, then takes it to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in August. This year, project director Marcia Ferguson and members Adam Ritter, Susset Tamayo, Olivia Demberg, Whitney Barrett and Matthias Volker are thrilled to present Orlando as part of this project.

The performers will collaborate with the Theatre Arts Artistic Resident for 2020, Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director of the Wilma Theatre. The residency will feature training in Zizka’s HotHouse acting and movement technique.