The focus here is on the nature of design in adaptation. One example includes key aspects such as location from pre-production sketches to how the final set looks in production, and how this relates to the words found in Woolf's novel. Additionally it's interesting to note the differences in adaptation across Orlando's 400 year journey.
Setting the mood for design.
This idea of travelling through time at the speed of light is interesting to consider in relation to design changes required.
"Such was his shyness that he saw no more of her than her ringed hands in water; but it was enough."
"Whereupon Orlando, overcome with shyness, darted off and reached the banqueting-hall only just in time to sink upon his knees and, hanging his head in confusion, to offer a bowl of rose water to the great Queen herself"
Linking this original descriptions of the Queen in the novel, and to the adaptation.
"of the night and the blazing candles, of the shabby poet and the great Queen, of silent fields and the clatter of serving men - that he could see nothing; or only a hand."
