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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