WNO’s ORLANDO at the Bristol Hippodrome
Director Harry Fehr has painted Orlando as a senior officer in the RAF, given to outbreaks of sudden violent behaviour – a man seized and eventually overcome with hallucinatory dementia inflamed by the realisation that the woman he loves has left him for another man. That other man is the soldier Medoro, also in hospital to recover, but from physical wounds, not a mental condition . . . As can be expected of the WNO, this was another very high quality production showing bold interpretation and delivery.
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