What I have for you today is the kind of thing English majors and Virginia Woolf fanatics love to find — a giant factual error about Woolf.
Well, maybe it’s not so giant. But it was made in the print and online editions of the Calgary Herald.
I won’t mention the writer who made the goof. You can click on the link and see his name for yourself.
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut gets theatrical treatment in Downstage production
Sometimes, actors are celebrities. Other times, they play them.
Anthony Hopkins played Richard Nixon. (And Picasso). Will Smith played Muhammad Ali. Meryl Streep played Julia Child (and Virginia Woolf).
All of which brings us around to Calgary actor and producer Joel Cochrane’s new role. He’s playing Kurt Vonnegut, a famous dead novelist, in And So It Goes, the George F. Walker play that begins a . . .
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And isn’t it too bad! Streep would have been far better than Nicole Kidman; she would have shown more depth of character, including Woolf’s delightful irony. Then of course we would have to recast Clarissa…
Many thanks for this blog. It’s a pleasure to have access to it. Do you know of a search engine for VW texts? I am trying to chase down a reference to the town of Ryde, on the isle of Wight, in “The Waves” (perhaps I’m making this up) and can’t figure out how to go about doing it. Thanks, Bill
There is a wonderful CD-Rom that contains all of Woolf’s writing, including holograph versions of her work. It is called “Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf,” it is published by Primary Source Media, and it is searchable. It is out of production, but you should be able to get hold of one through an academic library. You can read more about it here: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_res.authors.htm
ISBN-10: 1578030498
ISBN-13: 978-1578030491