Same-sex attraction wasn’t socially acceptable when Virginia Woolf penned the original story of Orlando. She wrote the novel as a 爱情 letter to her female companion, but was forced to use a sort of code so as not to raise suspicion. The story spans centuries as it tells the tale of an enthusiastic heterosexual man who wakes to find himself transformed into a woman.
Times have changed and so has Virgina Woolf’s Orlando, as evidenced 由 the 最近的 production of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, directed 由 A. Nora Long. Now in its final weekend, the 显示 has...
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