Orlando

Hannah is a theatre director. She is currently Associate Director (Literary) at Chichester Festival Theatre. She was previously the Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio, a director on the Old Vic 12, Resident Director at the Almeida and Baylis Assistant Director at the Old Vic.

Directing credits include: Original Death Rabbit (Jermyn Street Theatre), Fake Melania (Old Vic 12), Carry on Jaywick (HighTide/UK Tour) Eigengrau (The Kings Head) The 11th Hour (the egg, Theatre Royal Bath)

Assistant/Associate credits include: Box of Delights and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing & Rutherford and Son (National Theatre), Dance Nation (Almeida), A Number (The Bridge), Woyzeck (Old Vic), Incognito (nabakov/The Bush)

She is a tutor for Open Door, a non-profit organisation that helps talented young people who do not have the financial support or resources to gain a place at drama school.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential modernist authors of the twentieth century. A prolific novelist, essayist, biographer, and feminist, Woolf's literary style evolved with each of her works. Her letters and memoirs offer insights into her central role in English literary culture during the Bloomsbury era, a time when art and society were deeply intertwined.

Among her most famous novels are Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928).

Neil Bartlett has been making rule-breaking theatre and performance since 1983. He was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 1994. Since leaving the Lyric in 2005, major cultural producers he has worked for include the National, the Abbey in Dublin, the Bristol Old Vic , the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Edinburgh International, Manchester International, Brighton, Aldeburgh and Holland Festivals, the Wellcome Foundation and Tate Britain.

Neil is also an acclaimed author, with a whole shelf of novels, plays, adaptations and translations to his name. His most recent novel, Address Book, was published by Inkandescent in 2021. His radical new staging of Virginia Woolf’s magical mistress-piece Orlando made a big impact in London when it opened at the Garrick Theatre in November 2022. 

His debut novel, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1990), has just been reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic by Profile Books.

Features nudity and depictions of male genitalia, and contains brief references to animal cruelty, transphobia, sexism, homophobia, with regular strong language. 

This amateur production of “Orlando” is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books