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Archive for March 17th, 2015

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day comes the news that a special adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway will be on stage at The Playhouse in Derry, Ireland, on Saturday, March 21.

Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Tickets are £11 and £9 and are available from The Playhouse Box Office at (028) 71268027.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf made their sole trip to Ireland in late April and early May of 1934. They traveled to counties Cork, Kerry and Galway, and they also spent time in Dublin.

Yes there is a great melancholy in a deserted land, though the beauty remains untouched. – Virginia Woolf’s Diary entry, 30 April 1934

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A mashup by Chicago’s Second City troupe has Virginia Woolf’s name in the title, but itVirginia Woolf really isn’t about Virginia Woolf at all. Instead, the Woolf part of it comes from Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”

Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf — A Parody” opens at the Gillian Theatre April 27, 2016 and runs through June 12, 2016. Written by Tim Sniffen with additional material by Tim Ryder, its satirical mashup of A” Streetcar Named Desire,” “Death of a Salesman,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Our Town.”

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