[title]
Emma Corrin made quite the splash in last year’s West End debut. Famous for portraying one controversial real-life figure in ‘The Crown’ – Diana Spencer – the actor bagged an Olivier nomination for ‘Anna X’, in which they played a thinly veiled version of Anna Sorokin, aka the ‘fake heiress’ who befriended and defrauded Manhattan high society.
Now Corrin returns to the stage to play a fictional character, albeit one so famous they’re practically as iconic as Diana and Sorokin.
Corrin will be leading a brand new West End adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, her exuberant comic novel about an immortal, gender-switching androgyne. Born male in the reign of Elizabeth I, Orlando lives on for 300 years having a bloody good time, occasionally inexplicably changing sex.
This new version will be directed by the great Michael Grandage, from an adaptation by Neil Bartlett. It doesn’t have a venue yet, but we’re promised one will be announced soon.
‘Orlando’ will run in the West End this autumn. To sign up for more information, go here.