Orlando + performance
Sally Potter adapts the classic novel by Virginia Woolf with Tilda Swinton in the role of a young nobleman who lives for centuries and changes gender one night.
Thirty years after its premiere, Potter’s bold re-working of Virginia Woolf’s novel endures as a remarkable love story and an incisive tour through English history, while directly and deftly addressing modern concerns of gender and identity. Shortly before the death of Elizabeth I, an innocent aristocrat, Orlando – Tilda Swinton, in a profoundly subtle performance – is promised a generous fortune by the Queen provided that he ‘not grow old.’ He then goes on to live for centuries, first as a man, and then as a woman. (source: Lincoln Center)
Performance on Monday, January 22
For the screening on January 22 (7:30PM), there will be a brief performance before the film (language: English), presented by Branko Popovic, artistic director of FASHIONCLASH, and Varenka Theunynck and Beaudine Dermine, respectively, students of directing and acting at the Toneelacademie Maastricht. During an artistic research project at the Z33 art center in Hasselt, they previously collaborated on work related to Virginia Woolf's Orlando. In collaboration with the Toneelacademie Maastricht.