The production opens on skates. We are flung into an Elizabethan world articulated with the beautiful simplicity of a circle motif. A circle is dusted on the stage, the queen is dressed with an enormous circular petticoat reminiscent of crocheted toilet roll holders from the 1970s. Courtiers fly through on roller skates.
When Orlando (played by Shannen Alyce Quan, the first of four actors to take on the role), is presented to Queen Elizabeth I (Amber McMahon), she names him Lord Orlando, decreeing his life be filled with opportunity and abundance.
