ORLANDO 05

Type Performance Design - Set, Costume and Light

Introduction

My design visualisation of Orlando aims to focus on the connection between illusions and the core truth of identity. Our illusions, like imaginations, are affected by numerous external factors, such as the fluidity of gender, the elasticity of time or any transformations that happened during our lifetime. However, amidst a thousand jumbled identities and labels defined by society, we will all find the most necessary, the most important, the dominant ‘self’.

Model Making, Rhino, Lighting, Sketch, Collage, Photograph Medium

Orlando starts off life very much a boy. As a young servant in the court of Queen Elizabeth many women fall in love with him, including the great Queen herself.

But soon all his affairs start spinning out of control.

After a particularly wild night out in Constantinople, he wakes up to find himself a woman. Orlando now has to find her way home, as time spins ever faster through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as she tries to work out what it really means to be a woman and a human being alive here and now, in this present moment.