Orlando: A Pornobiography

Three boys, hunting on palace grounds, spot a girl. Two strangers skate together on the frozen River Thames. A young man and a married crossdresser meet for a playdate. Centuries pass, and Orlando has just bought a plane ticket to Neukölln, Berlin. Part pornographic bildungsroman, part frosted fever dream, Orlando: A Pornobiography is a restless transmission across time. Gliding between the surreal and the hyperreal, this unruly epic sees the 16th Century ring a phone sex hotline to find the 21st Century on the other end of the line, asking for a body capable of surviving its own desire. Across erotic entanglements, historical ruptures, and queer intrusions, an ensemble of transfemme performers tear through Virginia Woolf's Orlando in this brazen anti-adaptation, a world premiere from award-winning duo piss / CARNATION. Creative Team Writers & Lead Artists – Charli Cowgill & Laurie Ward Director – Joanna Pidcock Set Designer – Hazel Low Company Producer – Bronagh Leneghan Producer – Hannah Smith Stage Manager – Daze Corder Production Manager – Pete Rickards for eStage Commissioned by New Diorama Theatre. Supported by Arts Council England, Judith E Wilson Centre for Poetics at the University of Cambridge and Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust. piss / CARNATION make fervent and interdisciplinary theatre work about transfemininity. They combine brutality with tenderness, abjection with glamour and experimental forms with uncompromising honesty. Their work has been called "brazen" (⭑⭑⭑⭑ Guardian), "gloriously extreme" (⭑⭑⭑⭑ The Stage) and "the future of theatre" (⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Broadway World). Their work includes 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals and Ugly Sisters, both of which were received to acclaim.