"The thought of performing on rollerskates kind of churns my stomach at the moment," jokes actor Janet Anderson, who stars in Belvoir St Theatre's latest production, Orlando.  

"But every day I'm getting a little bit better."

In a pivotal scene in Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, a Russian princess ice skates over a frozen River Thames and captures the attention of a young English nobleman named Orlando — and what better way to bring that to life on stage than putting your cast in rollerskates? Loading Instagram content

It's the vision of director Carissa Licciardello who has adapted Woolf's classic, alongside collaborator Elsie Yager.

"At some point, one of our collaborators said, 'is it crazy to put everyone on rollerskates?'", Licciardello says.

"So we kind of

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