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He/him, she/her, no pronouns – this question has been asked for at least 400 years. Orlando is born as the son of a traditional noble family in the 16th century, awakens after a week-long sleep as a woman and from then on lives as a member of the opposite sex – until the present day in 1928, when Virginia Woolf published her most famous novel. Having become a cult book, Orlando stands for a revolution of the sexes in which there is only one constant: the desire to transform oneself. With acting students from the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Information about the piece
- Orlando
- after Virginia Woolf
- in a translation by Melanie Walz
- Director: Martin Laberenz
- With: Leona Bert, Leo Domogalski, Olga Matus, Nils Miekisch, Mika, Carlos Motolese-Trausan, Carla Njine, Emil Schüler, Pauline Stine Steger, Felina Zenner
- Place: Kammerspiele
- Duration: 2:10, no break
- Premiere: 20.12.2025
- Language: DE
Information about the performances
Hinweis: Es werden stroboskopische Lichteffekte eingesetzt.
Performances
Participants
- Director: Martin Laberenz
All people
- Director: Martin Laberenz
- Stage design: Oliver Helf
- Costume design: Adriana Braga Peretzki
- Costume collaboration: Alexis Mersmann
- Light design: Sirko Lamprecht
- Dramaturgy: Moritz Hannemann
- Assistant director: Christian Feras Kaddoura, Tinka Bitzel, Lamees Kanmaz
- Assistant stage design: Carolin Vogl
- Assistant costume design: Stina-Marie Wagner
- Trainee costume design: Theresa Duttweiler, Finja Brunow
- Prompter: Tanja Grix
- Stage manager: Jonas Kissel
Images
© Jörg Brüggemann / Ostkreuz
© Jörg Brüggemann / Ostkreuz
Press reviews
Press voices
„,Orlando’ in Bochum ist eine Inszenierung mit großen Schauwerten. Vor allem das Ensemble ist die Schau.“
Westfälischer Anzeiger, Achim Lettmann
Cooperations
Cooperations
Co-production with Folkwang Universität der Künste
