Garrick Theatre, until 25th February
‘The true length of a person's life, whatever the Dictionary of National Biography may Say, is always a matter of dispute.’
That's Virginia Woolf's surreal premise of her novel Orlando, about an androgynous Tudor nobleman who lives through several centuries without ageing, and ends up in 1928, the year this fantastical ‘biography’ was written.
It was inspired by the family history of Woolf's lover, Vita
