Steve and Vinora Epp's ORLANDO: A Rhapsody

PRESS RELEASE

The Moving Company Proudly Presents ORLANDO: A Rhapsody

A shared reverie, just as much as it is a quarrel, between two generations and two experiences of art, of life.

“The play serves as a fascinating dialogue on the ever-growing and changing understanding of gender and aging, through the lens of a paternal relationship.” - Beauty News NYC

“At once an essay on Virginia Woolf… and a discussion between a father and daughter on gender, performativity and power.” -Minnpost

ORLANDO: A Rhapsody

A shared reverie, just as much as it is a quarrel, between two generations and two experiences of art, of life.

Written and Performed by
STEVEN EPP & VINORA EPP

Based on Virginia Woolf

Directed by VINORA EPP

THREE WEEK LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT

NOVEMBER 5 – NOVEMBER 22, 2025 AT THE PARADISE FACTORY THEATER

OPENING NIGHT IS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, AT 7:30 P.M.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

THE MOVING COMPANY is pleased to announce Steven Epp and Vinora Epp’s devised collaboration of ORLANDO: A Rhapsody, directed by Vinora Epp. ORLANDO: A Rhapsody will play a three-week limited engagement at Off-Broadway’s Paradise Factory Theater (64 E 4th Street, NY, NY 10003). Performances begin Wednesday, November 5th, and continue through Saturday, November 22nd. Opening Night is Friday, November 7th (7:30p.m.). Tickets begin at $29 and are available at buytickets.at/orlandoarhapsody.

A father and daughter step onstage to tell their own entwined story through the words of Virginia Woolf—Orlando, The Waves, A Room of One’s Own—and through themselves. What begins as play, dress-up, and shared memory grows into a rhapsodic duet where language, movement, and imagination collide. Like children inventing a world in their living room, or seasoned actors sparring over Shakespeare, they slip between Woolf’s poetry and their personal histories.

As one becomes Orlando young, the other Orlando old, their dialogue unfolds across centuries, genders, and selves. The piece wrestles with Woolf’s great questions—what it means to be, how stories shape identity, and why fiction matters—while revealing the intimate bonds and fractures of family. Both fanciful and raw, Orlando: A Rhapsody is less a retelling than a living conversation with Woolf, with each other, and with the audience.

“I grew up in a theatre. These are the first words of my directorial debut, Orlando: A Rhapsody. My father was co-artistic director of Théâtre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, and that space felt like an extension of our home. When I was seven, I watched him play Hamlet. I didn’t understand the plot, but I understood the feelings—and somewhere in that experience I decided I wanted to be an actor, and someday play Hamlet. I knew that in Shakespeare’s time, girls weren’t allowed on stage, but the impossibility of a girl playing Hamlet didn’t faze me.

Years later, while finishing my training at l’École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne in France, I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. There, Woolf imagines Shakespeare’s sister: equally gifted, but barred from opportunity, mocked, abandoned, and finally lost to despair. I closed the book and wept. Woolf shattered a myth I had inherited—that gender has no bearing on the stories we tell.

Orlando: A Rhapsody emerged as my response. It is a reckoning with the stories we inherit and the ones denied to us, and a search for how we might imagine—and perform—new ones.” —Vinora Epp

The production stars 2025 Joe A. Callaway Award-winning Actor Steven Epp (TONY for Best Regional Theater), and Vinora Epp (based in Paris, making her stateside debut).

Conceived and performed by Steven Epp and Vinora Epp, this production marks Vinora Epp's directorial debut. After its world premiere at The Tank in April 2024 and its regional premiere in Minneapolis in May-June 2025, ORLANDO: A Rhapsody is returning to New York City for a limited run at Paradise Factory Theater.

The production features scenic design and costume design by Vinora Epp and Steven Epp and lighting design by Xuewei (Eva) Hu. Musical arrangements by Bruno de Labriolle, producing consulting by Olivia Facini, and associate producing by Jonathan Bock. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR. Artwork by Alma Charry

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ORLANDO: A Rhapsody plays the following schedule through Saturday , November 22nd:

PREVIEWS:
November 5 & 6 @7:30

OPENING: November 7 @7:30pm

November 8 @7:30pm
November 9 @ 2pm
November 10 @7:30pm
November 12-15 @7:30pm
November 18 @7:30pm
November 20-22 @7:30pm

Tickets are $29-45 and are now available online at buytickets.at/orlandoarhapsody

Running Time: 70 Minutes

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