Performances on April 28-30 are at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre, in the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for patrons 17 and under. Call 484-664-3333 or visit the website for tickets.
Read more about Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando on Blogging Woolf:
The Elite Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Arthur Kraft’s drama “Goat,” about what might have happened if a psychologist had prevented writer Virginia Woolf from committing suicide in 1941.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sundays, fronm April 22 through May 29 at the Petit Playhouse, Heritage Square, Oxnard, Calif.
Tickets are $17 for adults and $15 for seniors and students. For reservations, call 805-483-5118.
For the first time since I started tallying weekly Woolf sightings, I have fewer than 20 on my list. This week they range from a mention in an interview with Pulitzer-prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to a mother’s stream of consciousness during “the talk” with her young daughter.
How ‘the Goon Squad’ came to be, CNN International
Other inspirations: Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth” (one of my favorite books ever), Robert Stone, Virginia Woolf and the great 19th-century storytellers, especially Dickens, George Eliot and Zola. CNN: In addition to your career as a novelist, …
Winning characters, Malaysia Star
In fact, the great works feature people who are so unusual and so memorable that they earn a place for themselves beyond the pages of a book – think the titular character in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr Ripley by …
Jilly Cooper: ‘I’m a reasonable writer but I’m much too colloquial’, The Guardian
I do hope it’s only showjumpers who behave this badly.” She was wonderful. She once rang me up to say: “Darling, did you know? Virginia Woolf has just won Wimbledon.” Of course, it was Virginia Wade. Do you find it easy to write about sex? …
On the upside, Hindustan Times
Author-critic Virginia Woolf, former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and actor Catherine Zeta Jones are among some people diagnosed with bipolar illnesses. But it’s anything but glamourous. “When there are lows,
you are like a vegetable. …
But what do they do with their legs?, The Guardian
I imagined Virginia Woolf contentedly sitting in a pond of her own. And then drowning. “Where is it?” Mulan asked, her eyes bigger than ever. “It’s in our lower abdomen, inside us, below our belly button, above our vagina.” I had managed to be specific …
Agony ancients, Financial Times
The title chapter on learning to drive, for example, ranges from a meditation on freedom, Virginia Woolf and the film Thelma and Louise, through how machines challenge what it means to be human, to the Romantic idea of the quest – then back to freedom …
THE LABORATORY, Spencer Daily Reporter (blog) … but that doesn’t mean you should limit yourself to only that space. Inspiration can strike anywhere, and you must remain open to the process. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Woolf.
History and gender are up for grabs in Muhlenberg’s joyful Orlando, Muhlenberg Weekly Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking tale Orlando takes the stage Apr. 28 to explore what we mean when we talk about identity, gender, poetry, and love Orlando, the final play in the College’s Mainstage Theatre & Dance season, traverses three centuries of …
Writing with Cats, New Yorker (blog) (Perhaps a disclaimer is in order: I do in fact have a cat, and a vaguely literary one at that: she’s called Orlando, after the Virginia Woolf novel; her first week in my care was a little confusing, gender-wise.) The other day the folks over at …
More than black and white, The Hindu
According to Virginia Woolf, the reader “differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinion of others. …
Onstage calendar: April 22, 2011, Ventura County Star
“Goat”: The Elite Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Arthur Kraft’s drama about what might have happened if a psychologist had prevented writer Virginia Woolf from committing suicide in 1941. 8 pm Fridays and Saturday, 2 pm Sundays, …
Women’s Society presents leadership awards, scholarship, Washington University Record
The award consists of a $500 cash prize and a silver clock inscribed with a quote from English writer Virginia Woolf: “I should remind you how much depends upon you and what an influence you can exert upon the future.” The Women’s Society, with the …
Phil Rizzo: Depression a challenge in old age, Signal Answers.com lists some of our most recognizable names: Writers: Hans Christian Andersen, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, and the list …
A cultural critic attends the NHL playoffs, LA Observed
Brian Kennedy wrote “Growing Up Hockey” (Folklore 2007) and “Living the Hockey Dream” (Folklore 2009), as well as a number of academic essays on topics from Henry James to Virginia Woolf. His last post for Native Intelligence was on managing fear in …
Weave magic with the food kitchen In the words of Virginia Woolf?, BlogHer (blog)
“We can k? Not think well, love, sleep well, if not many births?.” Food is an essential element of our existence, but for some people it is much more than filling the stomach and soothe your appetite. Food for a party, a gathering of fine ingredients, …
Pillows and bags stitched from textiles designed by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) can be had for a price. And you can vote for your favorite in the Blogging Woolf poll.
Bags in Charleston West Wind and Charleston Queen Mary prints
Three of Grant’s 1930s textile prints were recently re-launched by the Charleston Trust. The 140-cm-wide fabric itself is available only at the Charleston Trust Shop. The cotton/linen/nylon blend is priced at £27.50 per half metre.
The pillows and bags are available in a limited edition at Ancient Industries.
The pillows and bags are available in three patterns:
Charleston Grapes, designed by Grant in 1931 and used at both Charleston and Monk’s House
Charleston West Wind, designed by Grant in 1931
Charleston Queen Mary, designed by Grant in 1936 for the first class lounge of the Queen Mary
Pillows are 20-inch square and include a hidden zipper. Inserts are not included. The price is $55.
Bag in Charleston Grapes print
Bags, described as “shopping bags,” measure 16″ x 18″. Each has three inside pockets and is fully lined. The price is $85. Brooklyn illustrator Wayne Pate is the bag designer.
News of this find came to Blogging Woolf via Lauren Bufferd, facilities manager at the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, Tenn.
You can read a bit more about the pillows and bags on the Ancient Industries blog. Scroll down to the April 14 post.
Take a look at these 26 Woolf sightings found during the past week.
Poem of the week: A Northern Suburb by John Davidson, The Guardian (blog) His poetry was admired by Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot and, intermittently, WB Yeats, who knew him from Rhymers’ Club meetings, and complained of his “Scottish roughness and exasperation”. Hugh MacDiarmid paid him the sincerest tribute as “the only …
Editorial: Celebrities and Bipolar Disorder, About – News & Issues
Brilliant authors and poets Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and John Berryman all took their own lives. I myself “went public” with my bipolar disorder – on this website – on the day I was diagnosed, and I’ve never regretted my openness. …
5 Least Sexy Film Characters (Female), ChicagoNow (blog)
I am very, very afraid of Virginia Woolf. Will Hunting’s strengths: fighting, brains, lying, one-liners, and carpentry. Weaknesses: female basketball players. Geena Davis is easily the 2nd best looking guy in this picture. Call me narrow-minded, …
Teen story honorable mention: The Carrel Boy, Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com
My carrel is like a womb where Virginia Woolf holds me in her arms; where Yeats sings to me; where Kafka asks me if my world is real. And I say “Yes, yes my world is real, Kafka. I am real, my carrel is real, and we are here together. …
My hero: George Eliot, The Guardian
From Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, she questioned her times. She plumbed ideas, politics, religion, race, and above all the vagaries of the heart. Virginia Woolf characterised Middlemarch as “one of the fewEnglish novels written for grown-up people”. …
Labour new and blue, Progress Magazine
‘At a recent seminar in Oxford that brought together new Labour and blue Labour, a philosopher attached to the latter quoted Virginia Woolf’s diary: “Terrible weekend. Man drowned in river. Went to Labour Party meeting.” Arguments in the fraternal …
Greene’s pastures, The Australian
I suspect we’ll still be reading him when the pages of Virginia Woolf stay unopened and when William Faulkner is a bit hard to get down from the shelf. Greene was intensely interested in the art of writing. He was obsessed by that most innovative of …
Two plays set high standard, North Shore News
Glass’s title is based on a Virginia Woolf quote — “We think back through our mothers if we are women.” Neat endings and messages are anathema to Glass. She gives us three conflicted characters connected by blood and marriage, and examining their …
Bipolar disorder: Factfile, The Independent
… counselling by psychologists, social workers or psychiatric nurses. – Famous people who may have been bipolar include Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Vincent Van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and Charles Baudelaire.
Bringing Film Noir to the Small Screen: HBO’s Mildred Pierce, My Latino Voice
Mildred learns all too soon the meaning of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” and lines from “King Lear.” And here one gets a taste of Winslet’s “Revolutionary Road” with slivers of “Chinatown.” With style and finely detailed sets, “Mildred Pierce” …
BBC readers to click with the Listener, GulfNews
By Jemima Kiss, Guardian News and Media Ltd. London: It was one of the most distinguished titles in British journalism for more than six decades, nurturing the careers of literary talent including Virginia Woolf, Phillip Larkin and TS Eliot, …
The blossoming of Bloomsbury, Evening Standard
This is because, by the time of Virginia Woolf and her colleagues, the interests of literature and avant-garde art in general had moved beyond social realism, and towards internal, psychological narratives. The work of these artists spawned nothing …
LePain explores Augustine’s Confessions, Le Provacteur (subscription)
Professor LePain began the lecture with a flurry of literary allusions ranging from Dante to The Dream of the Red Chamber to Don Quixote and Virginia Woolf-painting, with broad strokes, an image of readers and the books they read throughout literary …
During their residence there they were visited by well known fellow members of the group including Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes. The property has been lovingly refurbished by its current owners and boasts the original restored mill wheel, … Read Bloomsbury home Tidmarsh for sale.
Around the same time, I read Michael Cunningham’s novel “The Hours,” a story of three women connected by Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.” It is a beautiful piece of art, and is also a book written by a gay man with one of the central characters a…
Annabel by Kathleen Winter – review, The Guardian
Annabel takes a fresh approach: it eschews the dark humour of Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex, or, in less direct treatments, the gruesomeness of Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, the epic sweep of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the inventive intricacy of Ursula …
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano’s talent has depth, Washington Post
… season’s Young Concert Artists series, Cano followed Nicola Porpora’s “Alto Giove” from his opera “Polifemo” with Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer,” Ravel’s “Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques” and Dominick Argento’s “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. …
The problem with “Miral”, NYU Washington Square News
When Nadia decides to kill herself by wading into the river Virginia Woolf-style, Schnabel’s sensorium works to convey the claustrophobia of the water, muffling sight and sound. But it never tells us, or shows us, who she was in the first place. …
Amazon introduces cheaper Wi-Fi Kindle with ads, USA Today
The only difference: Ads replace illustrations of classic authors like Virginia Woolf and Jules Verne that appear on current Kindle screensavers. This Amazon gift card deal is among deals that will be delivered directly to “Kindle with Special Offers” …
A symphony conductor’s lawsuit of note, Yakima Herald-Republic
The New York Times reported last month the 1994 law restored copyrights in films by Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini, books by CS Lewis and Virginia Woolf, and paintings by Picasso. Teachers and archivists are also plaintiffs in the case. …
Poets in Motion, BOOK Southern Africa (blog) Virginia Woolf set herself the task of going to buy a pencil in order to justify taking a walk, and American poet AR Ammons gives a new meaning to loafing, when he proposes a trip to buy the daily bread, but he comes to the conclusion that a walk is…
RH relaunches Hogarth Press, The Bookseller
The spirit of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s literary imprint the Hogarth Press will be revived on both sides of the Atlantic after Random House announced the launch of a new fiction imprint. Hogarth will launch in summer 2012 and will focus on …
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