Orlando, an attractive, swashbuckling, time-travelling nobleman, favourite of Queen Elizabeth and lover of Princess Sasha, lives over 500 years. Halfway through his adventurous lifetime, a 7-day slumber rescues him from certain death, and Orlando awakens as a woman. While learning the pitfalls, privileges and predicaments of a brand new gender, Orlando finds the meaning of life in the written word. Sarah Ruhls adaptation of Virginia Woolfs novel takes the audience through time and space in an alternately playful and soulful, earthy and mythic meditation on gender, love, politics, and the human condition.