{"id":67402,"date":"2022-11-09T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=67402"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:20:56","slug":"nau-theatre-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theatre-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Theatre presents Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU\u2019s Department of Theatre presents <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Orlando,<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the second production of the theatre season, adapted from the poem by Virginia Woolf by MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl. Audiences can see this iconic play at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17-19 or the 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 19-20 at the Studio Theatre in NAU\u2019s Performing Arts Building (Bldg. 37).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The play continues a season inspired by the theme of precipice<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">and explores the liminal space of time. <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Orlando<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is the second of four stories that explore the journey upward to the edge of a precipice, the moment of decision and the potential changes that lie ahead. <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Orlando <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">transcends the borders of time and space through its exploration of first love over the course of 400 years. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Orlando<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is a coming-of-age story about a young writer in the court of Queen Elizabeth, who discovers both the pen and the taste of first love, grappling with both centuries as it defies the limits of social expectation and time. This light-hearted play is a playful and poignant exploration of gender identity and sexuality as well as what it means to love over time&#8211;from the Elizabethan period to today\u2014encouraging audiences to consider what it means to love as we age.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tickets are available through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/cto\/theatre\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU Central Ticketing<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theatre-orlando\/\">NAU\u2019s Department of Theatre presents Orlando, the second production of the theatre season, adapted from the poem by Virginia Woolf by MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl. Audiences can see this iconic play at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17-19 or the 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 19-20 at the Studio Theatre in NAU\u2019s Performing Arts Building (Bldg. 37).\u00a0 The&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":67403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}