It's a man, it's a poet, it's Orlando

As founder and artistic director of SacImpulse, Jerry Lee wanted an outlet to produce “highly re-imagined treatments of classic literature,” he told SN&R. Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography, which Lee describes as “a very lyrical fantasia about finding meaning, purpose, and one's own center” takes place in an ever-changing world. It tells the story of a poet—a man who wakes up one day and has morphed into a woman. The story spans nearly 300 years, from the Elizabethan age to 1928—yet the character ages only 36 years.

Melinda Parrett stars as the title character, while Lee, Kayla Marie Berghoff, Sean Patrick Nill and Eason Donner fill out the cast. Both Lee and Parrett are professional actors working under an Actors' Equity Association special-appearance agreement for the production, which will have only six performances, beginning Thursday, May 8.

Orlando; 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday; $20. New Helvetia Theatre, 1028 R Street; (916) 749-6039; www.sacimpulse.com. Through May 17.