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Orlando

Guy Cassiers, Toneelhuis

An ode to language. To beauty. To the imagination. To the senses. To life.

Can you live for over three-hundred years and in that time change sex! Can you fall asleep as a man and wake up a woman! Can you be the Queen of England’s lover, a diplomat in Turkey and a gypsy? Yes. All this happens to Orlando, the protagonist of the novel of the same name by the English writer Virginia Woolf.  

Orlando (1929) is an adventurous journey through the history and the cultures of Europe, and also one of the gems of twentieth-century literature. Katelijne Damen plays Orlando, Guy Cassiers directs. An ode to language. To beauty. To the imagination. To the senses. To life.

Selected for the Dutch Theatre Festival 2013.

But in this Orlando something of a miracle takes place! And that miracle is Katelijne Damen. Not only did she adapt the surprisingly light text into a lively, meandering and at times turbulent stage monologue, but she also plays both the biographer and the biographer’s subject Orlando. And she does it inimitably. Like Maria Kraakman in the Oostpool version, Damen deserves a Theo d'Or.

"He, Guy Cassiers, has pulled it off again. Or rather: she, Katelijne Damen, has. Both wanted to make an ode to the imagination. To language. To beauty. To the senses. To life. They succeeded, and how!"

"Cassiers’ style is now so much his own that you might imagine his plays would no longer be able to surprise us. But he manages to do so again, together with Katelijne Damen."

"With actor Katelijne Damen’s primeval force, her clear, lyrical treatment of Virginia Woolf’s text and the aesthetic visual language of Guy Cassiers and his image and sound designers, the members of Toneelhuis have added another gem to their oeuvre."

in Het Nederlands Theaterfestival , 10 July 2013

director

  • Guy Cassiers

translation

  • Gerardine Franken

dramaturgy

  • Erwin Jans

adaptation

  • Katelijne Damen

performance

  • Katelijne Damen

set design

  • Guy Cassiers

light design

  • Giacomo Gorini

video design

  • Frederik Jassogne

sound design

  • Diederik De Cock

artistic collaborator

  • Luc De Wit

costume design

  • Katelijne Damen

production

  • Toneelhuis
  • Toneelhuis

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