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Eccentric triviality aimed at 1970s feminists: Orlando, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed

Plus: child murder and cannibalism at the Olivier Theatre

Emma Corrin (Orlando) and Millicent Wong (Sasha) in Orlando at the Garrick Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner 
issue 07 January 2023

Orlando opens with a pack of Virginia Woolfs on stage. All wear the same costume of horn-rimmed spectacles, long tweed skirts and woolly cardigans, and they comply with current diversity targets. There’s a white Woolf, a black Woolf, a mixed-race Woolf, an East Asian Woolf, and a male Woolf with a deep voice who seems to have wandered in from Little Red Riding Hood.

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