Saturday, April 5th, 2025
Orlando - film screening
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery The Weighbridge JE2 3NG St Helier
Details
FREE screening
Directed by Sally Potter with Tilda Swinton portraying Orlando,
Billy Zane
as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine and
Quentin Crisp
as
Queen Elizabeth I
.
‘Orlando’
, was published in 1928 and is a fictional biography of the immortal Orlando, who begins life as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England and later transforms into a woman. The novel is a satirical examination of gender roles and a commentary on the fluidity of identity. Woolf wrote ‘
Orlando’
as a love letter to her lover, Vita Sackville-West, and the novel is considered a landmark work of queer literature.