Orlando

Set and Lighting Design for The Sumner Theatre

Within Sarah Ruhl’s, Orlando, the protagonist’s life changes over several centuries, and with the longer Orlando lives, the more experiences she accrues and the more timelines she finds herself living on. This design is attuned to the timepiece of Orlando’s mind and signifies a fictional place where her stray memories are stored. The layered flies are composed as a fanciful garden landscape that fuses together foreign and familiar forms and memories. 

As “time passes over” Orlando and she comes to realise nothing “is any longer one thing,” the facades begin to erode away into nothingness, dismantling the construct of time and Orlando’s imagined memories, that are ultimately hollow and meaningless.