Event Listing - Theater

Thu Feb 28 - Sat Mar 15

A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program presents

Virginia Woolf's Orlando

A gender-bending tale of sex, love, and the enduring search for self

Tel. 415.749.2228
Website

Description

Orlando is a cheeky, lecherous young man, born in Elizabethan England, brimming with curiosity. His trim legs catch the eyes of the aging queen, but Orlando favors the love of a beautiful Russian princess, Sasha. When Sasha is unfaithful, Orlando plunges headlong through centuries of time, relishing the attentions of adoring girls. But his fate is altered when he emerges one morning as a Victorian maiden.

Based on Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Sarah Ruhl's Orlando is a fresh, compelling look at love, gender, and how relationships affect our lives. Ruhl, best known for The Clean House, is the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius grant and a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Zeum Theater
221 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ryan Rilette

A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program
performing at Zeum Theater

A gender-bending tale of sex, love, and the enduring search for self

"Your formal training at A.C.T. is demanding, individual, and intense and is designed to refine your sense of theatrical truth by tuning your human instrument—your voice, body, intellect, and imagination."

Melissa Smith, Conservatory Director

A.C.T. seeks to develop the artist in every actor. We cultivate educated men and women of the theater with a critical sense who will energize and advance performance in America. Our training prepares actors to succeed in all aspects of the profession, but our primary goal is to prepare artists for a lifelong investment in the theater.

Our curriculum combines rigorous training in the practical disciplines of acting with the study, rehearsal, and performance of classical and contemporary works drawn from the world repertoire. We believe that actors who have an intellectual and visceral grasp of dramatic literature, who recognize a relationship between new and classical work, are uniquely prepared to collaborate in the development of new dramatic forms.

To learn more about the A.C.T. Conservatory, including the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program, please visit www.ACTactortraining.org