Orlando at Lyric Stage Company of Boston

Based on Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Sarah Ruhl's Orlando takes a fresh look at love, gender and relationships. One of America's most exciting young playwrights, Ruhl brings her trademark blend of feminism and fantasy to Woolf's gender-bending tale that follows the young nobleman Orlando, who decides never to grow old. He falls asleep one day and wakes to find himself a woman. Orlando's swashbuckling adventure spans 300 years during which time Orlando ages only 36 years before landing in the 20th century where as a woman, she must come to terms with not only her past, but a present that challenges her. Don't miss this compelling production at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston.