Golden Globes winner Emma Corrin’s captivating role in this bold, tricksy adaptation of garrick-theatre-review-emma-corrin-west-end-b1044944.html">Orlando. Why this Virginia Woolf story about gender-fluidity is a Christmas hot ticket in the West End.

Plus, we take you inside evening-standard-theatre-awards-jodie-comer-james-mcavoy-report-b1044946.html">the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards, with winners including Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and James McAvoy.

This is the Evening Standard's Theatre Review.

In this episode:

Part 1: Orlando at the Garrick Theatre

• What is this adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf all about?
• Directed by Michael Grandage - who recently worked on the West End’s adaptation of Frozen
• Emma Corrin, who has been Lady Diana and Lady Chatterley
• Why you’re asked to contemplate gender, sexuality and social attitudes towards women
• How Corrin anchors the show but it felt like the production's emotional stakes weren’t very high
• The nine diverse actors playing versions of author Virginia
• Why Deborah Findlay as servant Mrs Grimsditch borders on panto
• Who was Virginia Woolf?

Part 2: Inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

• An emotional affair after a two-year break due to covid-19
• Killing Eve star Jodie Comer wins the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress
• James McAvoy wins the Best Actor Award for Cyrano de Bergerac
• Lynette Linton secures Milton Shulman Award for Best Director for Blues for an Alabama Sky
• Lynette becomes the sixth woman, and the first woman of colour, to win in the directing category since 1981
• Patrick Vaill wins Best Musical Performance for Oklahoma

Former Evening Standard editor Charles Wintour created the Theatre Awards in 1955.

To read all from the big night itself evening-standard-theatre-awards-jodie-comer-james-mcavoy-report-b1044946.html">click here.

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