Belvoir’s Orlando is a love letter to the contemporary queer community that doesn’t quite come together
- Written by Cymbeline Buhler King, Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University

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...