The Standard18 Des 2022

Leader Weekends: Theatre Review (Orlando, & our Theatre Awards)

Golden Globes winner Emma Corrin’s captivating role in this bold, tricksy adaptation of Orlando. Why this Virginia Woolf story about gender-fluidity is a Christmas hot ticket in the West End.

Plus, we take you inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards, with winners including Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and James McAvoy.

This is the Evening Standard's Theatre Review.

In this episode:

Part 1: Orlando at the Garrick Theatre

What is this adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf all about?
Directed by Michael Grandage - who recently worked on the West End’s adaptation of Frozen
Emma Corrin, who has been Lady Diana and Lady Chatterley
Why you’re asked to contemplate gender, sexuality and social attitudes towards women
How Corrin anchors the show but it felt like the production's emotional stakes weren’t very high
The nine diverse actors playing versions of author Virginia
Why Deborah Findlay as servant Mrs Grimsditch borders on panto
Who was Virginia Woolf?

Part 2: Inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

An emotional affair after a two-year break due to covid-19
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer wins the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
James McAvoy wins the Best Actor Award for Cyrano de Bergerac
Lynette Linton secures Milton Shulman Award for Best Director for Blues for an Alabama Sky
Lynette becomes the sixth woman, and the first woman of colour, to win in the directing category since 1981
Patrick Vaill wins Best Musical Performance for Oklahoma

Former Evening Standard editor Charles Wintour created the Theatre Awards in 1955.

To read all from the big night itself click here.

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