Orlando

Spring 2025
Academy of Music | Northampton, MA

More info coming soon!

Eggtooth Productions is honored and grateful to have received a generous grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice to support our production of Orlando by Sara Ruhl at the Academy of Music this spring. We are deeply grateful to the MNF for their support of our work.

Ruhl's Orlando brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman as Orlando, first as he and then as she, struggles to learn the relevance of gender identity and the true meaning of life, if one never dies. Now the questions Orlando explores of gender are less fantastical and have more to do with our new reality as the rights and safety of our Trans and LGBTQ+ community are in peril. This playful story written a hundred years ago celebrates the multiplicity of gender in a delightful and loving way that is more relevant than ever. By directly addressing the ways that a person contains multiple genders within their soul this play celebrates the diversity of humanity in a positive yet pointed way that entertains while educating.

Here’s what a member of the Lupinewood Collective, a Trans asylum community, said about the production, “For me, the most profound part of watching Orlando was feeling re-woven into the fabric of time, when so often culture is telling me I have no place in it.”