![]() A film adaptation by Sally Potter, simply titled Orlando, was released in 1992, starring Tilda Swinton in the title role. This had its British premiere at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996, with Miranda Richardson playing the title role Isabelle Huppert performed in the version in French, which opened at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1993. In 1989, director Robert Wilson and writer Darryl Pinckney collaborated on a single-actor theatrical production. The novel has been adapted a number of times. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. ![]() ![]() Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. ![]() Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. ![]()
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