Orlando - Garrick Theatre

I wish more shows would do this, nothing more distracting than a constant stream of latecomers!

No, there is one semi-nude scene but it is play toed with bed clothes and Corin has their back to the audience before putting on a robe. Most of their costume shirts/blouses are somewhat light and see-through from the front row but I assume the warning is for that one scene. No explicit nudity.

This was OK. Corrin whom I'd never seen in anything else before- seem to have a lot of fun playing Orlando and was quite good but didn't blow me away. The joke directed at the audience 'boys and girls...' might be funny once but it gets tiresome by the third outing. Not sure about the various Virginia Wolf characters and why there were so many iterations of her or why this was needed.
Overall good value at £10 but for me quite forgettable as a night out.

Well this is a lot of fun but fundamentally a fairly shallow piece of theatre. Feels more like a concept, or someone who just finished their “Experimental Theatre” module at drama college wanting to shove in everything they learned, rather than an actual play. I feel like I’m being harsh because it was entertaining and some of the lines are extremely funny. The ending is very affecting. It certainly makes important points about gender, transphobia, sexism and treatment of women and gender non-conforming people. That’s a valuable voice and point of view we don’t see much in the West End. But I didn’t get more than a very superficial sense of plot or character.

Corrin has huge charisma and stage presence but I’d love to see them in a role with more of a really juicy proper character to get their teeth into.

Good fun! Emma Corrin brilliant. It’s a very unusual piece, I wasn’t familiar with it at all but did enjoy it.
Front row a steal at £10, stage is nice and low for this one.

After watching the Jeremy St production earlier in the year, I wasn’t sure how different this adaptation would be but wow, I was very pleased to see how this turned out. Emma Corrin as others have said bares all on the Garrick stage which as others have also pointed has delightfully lowered their stage affording those at the front with a great view. I still haven’t read Woolfs original novel and now really need to. Glad to see this getting such great reviews and hope this signals more stage work from the effervescent Corrin

Emma and Deborah were exceptional. Now lets find them a play to be exceptional in together that isn't this. I have always loved Michael Grandages' direction and this piece was no exception despite being hampered down from a play that doesn't quite sure know what it is. I agree with an earlier poster who said something along the lines of - it felt like a university experimental drama piece. While watching Emma was a delight - and they have exceptional stage presence and acting chops - the piece itself is just sort of...uh? It was entertaining most of the time but I lacking in any kind of emotion or vulnerability.
*** stars for me because of Emma, Deborah and Grandage
Was that John Lithgow I saw this eve?

There is a £10 ticket for tonight (5th Jan) on the Noticeboard.

well, I enjoyed this enormously yesterday and found it witty and inventive. Amused by some tourists muttering that they were upset that Lady Diana had been played by a transexual......so much wrong with that observation. ms Findlay wonderfully droll.

I didn't particularly like the play, although Emma C and Deborah F gave good performances. I liked the design and spectacle of it, and the multiple Virginias were a nice idea. I just found it hard to care about Orlando. There's so little character development (despite the centuries she/he lives through), and the other characters are quite superficial, so there are no developing relationships or anything else to help the audience feel invested in what happens to Orlando. There was enough to make it entertaining, and well worth £10, but a disappointingly shallow play.

I saw this last night unexpectedly (a friend has covid but was not able to exchange the ticket(!)) and ended up seeing Oliver Wickham rather than Emma Corrin. I didn't see the signs in the foyer until afterwards and am not that good at recognising people and they look somewhat similar so had accepted that I was seeing Emma C until that point but I see from Oliver's instagram that they had come on half way through the night before.

I went in completely blind and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I might but I'm still not sure what to make of it. I appreciated the brevity but I think people who love the book may feel short changed. Deborah F is obviously fantastic but I'm not sure about Oliver's performance, it didn't seem real in a lot of areas. Orlando realising that they could live as they wish was very touching but I didn't really feel anything else...

I would probably give it 3.5 stars but would go down to 3 for the purposes of a poll.

Oh dear, I am going tonight and was really hoping to see her. Fingers crossed she is feeling better.