![Because the Night](/media/jhgivocs/because-the-night-harvey.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=400&height=250&rnd=132790156411670000)
![Orlando](/media/rbqbcviw/the-rabble-s-orlando-malthouse-theatre-2012-2-photo-by-sarah-walker-hero.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=768&height=432&rnd=132804704412200000)
Production still for "Orlando". Syd Brisbane. Photographer: Sarah Walker
Orlando
By Emma Valente & Kate Davis
12 October 2012 – 27 October 2012 Tower Theatre
Malthouse Theatre, The Rabble, Melbourne Festival,
New Adaptation Theatre Collaboration Independent
Theatrical mavericks THE RABBLE bring us a hallucinatory reworking of Virginia Woolf's classic gender-bending parable.
The tale remains the same: the immortal Orlando is a young man, a hedonist and rake, a poet and lover, who awakens one day transformed into a young woman.
Inspired by Chopin, astrophysics and the Great Frost of 1709, THE RABBLE have stripped Woolf's Orlando down to a stark cosmological painting. This Orlando drifts through space instead of time, through galaxies instead of centuries, to explore the dark passages of gender, sexuality and fragmented identity.
Cast
Creatives
![Emma Valente](/media/dkiev0dk/valente-emma.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763243457170000)
Lighting Designer, Director, Creator
Author
![Kate Davis](/media/4ucb5neg/davis-kate.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763236529230000)
Designer, Creator
Acknowledgements
Presented by the RABBLE & Malthouse Theatre in association with the Melbourne Festival. The production is part of the HELIUM Program.
Highlights Video