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Barall, Michi
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Spring 2025
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2025
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For this performance concentration senior project, I performed in the Theatre and Performance Mainstage production of Sara Ruhl's Orlando, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel, Orlando: A Biography. The production, directed by Rachel Dickstein, also included scenes based on letters exchanged between Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. I played the role of Virginia Woolf and various other characters, including Euphrosyne, Rosalind, Dupper, Penelope, Priest, and Lead Chorus. The research project component of this senior project offers a comparative reading of Woolf's novel and Ruhl's play, demonstrating how Woolf challenges the restraints of a typical biography, overturns periodization, and maintains the constancy of queer identities across time, and exploring Ruhl's use of language, chorality and staging to translate this vision using 21st century notions of gender performativity and the inventive freedom of love beyond binaries.
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