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Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf, Lettie Precious - adaption
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A spirited new version of Virgina Woolf's Orlando adapted with a distinctly queer point of view. This adaptation revels in the origin of the story as a love letter from Woolf to Vita Sackville West.

Beginning the story as a young 16th century nobleman, Orlando's life spans centuries, continents, lovers and genders in a sumptuous celebration of what it means to explore one's own identity.

Lettie Precious celebrates this gender fluid masterpiece as a progressive tale in the context of its own time, while also bringing a distinctly 21st century lens to the issues of gender, sexuality, privilege and race raised by the text. A love letter to a love letter.

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Episodes
  • Ep 1

    Ep 1
    Mar 2 2021

    Orlando meets and charms Elizabeth I.
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    48 mins
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  • Ep 2

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    Mar 2 2021

    A great frost descends on the city of London.

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    42 mins
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  • Ep 3

    Ep 3
    Mar 2 2021

    Orlando falls into a deep sleep and awakes changed.

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    43 mins
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A charming production, with talented actors, music and sound FX. However the new additions to the text as spoken by the Muses often do not work. They offer a clunky, over-simplified introduction to feminist views and it comes across heavy handed and jarring. A bit more subtelty and weaving in of these ideas into the action might be better.

Charming, with some unsuccessful modern additions

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Thrilled to see this, having to my own reproach only read the well known essays and Mrs D. Audible has done the world a service by, for example, their production of Checkov's short stories and the three Thebian plays of Sophocles. I have Emma too set aside, and as our great cultural inheritance struggles to compete with Netflix, video games and social media, I feel Audible is doing a good turn. Thank you. These productions are of outstanding quality (as are Stephen Fry's recent offerings re the Victorians and language) and well worth using credits for but, being free, will reach broader audiences. As I say, a good turn. But I think you deserve honesty and I have to say my heart sank as I read on through the blurb. Why does Mrs Woolf of all people need 'queering' by audible? I hope you haven't really interposed your own / some third party sensibility between me and a classic text and that this is just lip service - part of the obvious change which has come over your recommendations in past year. Part of the point of the great literature is what it conveys of writer's world. Timeless truths about the human condition as these were rendered by a remarkable person rising out and above her particular place and time. The fads and preoccupations of our particular moment are decidedly not the point. In fact they rather risk ruining it. I want Virginia Woolf just as 'queer' as she was, not as queer as you think she should have been. If you want a contemporary feel, why not do that with a contemporary writer? Go knock yourself out. Just leave us Virginia Woolf.

What is wrong with Mrs Woolf?

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Intriguing and fascinating story tackling hot social issues very relevant today. This was a surprise!

Outstanding production of Virginia Woolfe story

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the dramatisation in this version is superb and brings contemporary life to a story that was once considered a romp, but is now an inspiring story on gender

wonderful dramatisation

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I couldn't get in to it voice acting felt very amateur. I like LGBTI+ literature but this felt like a bad high school project on orlando gender diversity.

dont bother read the original book

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