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“Vita & Virginia” adaptation at Edinburgh Fringe Aug. 7-12

Posted in events, performance, play, tagged , , , , on Monday 17 July 2023| Leave a Comment »

NKP Theatre Company’s production of a 50-minute adaptation of Eileen Atkins’ play “Vita & Virginia” will be on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe at 21:20 Aug. 7-12.

The play was  recently staged for members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and received a wonderful endorsement from Claire Nicholson, society chair:

This is an assured, touching and poignant production; a beautifully sensitive portrayal of a remarkable love story.

About the show

Ticket price: £12 (£10 concessions)
Booking: Book here.
Location: The Edinburgh Fringe, theSpace@Niddry Street, Edinburgh
Get more information.

About the play

This abridged version was created for an intimate setting by NKP Theatre Company.  In it, Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. The two embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia’s most famous novels, Orlando. Abridged from the original play by Eileen Atkins, Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing deep friendship, wit and passion between the literary genius and the aristocratic yet middle-brow poet.

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Watch Woolf Works ballet online until July 10

Posted in events, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, performance, The Waves, You Tube, tagged , , , on Saturday 27 June 2020| 1 Comment »

Available on YouTube from now until July 10 is the Royal Ballet’s performance of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, a triptych created in 2015.

Featuring music by Max Richter, the ballet received critical acclaim, winning McGregor the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production.

Inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, Woolf Works is based on three of Woolf’s novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves and weaves in elements from her letters, essays and diaries. The ballet looks at both her life and her work.

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Orlando staged in London July 31-Aug. 4

Posted in events, Orlando, performance, play, tagged , , , on Friday 5 July 2019| Leave a Comment »

Orlando, the stage adaptation by Sarah Rule, will be produced by the Marvellous Machine Theatre Company production, which is part of The Camden Fringe, July 31 through Aug. 4. Performances of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel are at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT (Mornington Crescent tube)
Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions) + £2.50 fee: book online: Book online.

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Study Woolf: Review of Woolf Works, Royal Opera House, May 13, 2015

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, music, performance, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Friday 22 May 2015| 1 Comment »

Below is a comment from Elisa Kay Sparks and a link to her review of Woolf Works.

Dear All-
I’ve finished my review/ explication of Woolf Works, the new Wayne MacGregor ballet I was lucky enough to get to see in London.  All the time I was watching it, I was wishing all of you were in the audience with me; this is the best I could do to make that so.  At the end I’ve added links to a lot of the reviews which have photographs of the performance and to a series of videos that show the dancers in rehearsal as well as  conversations among the choreographers, dancers, and dramaturg.

Study Woolf: Review of Woolf Works, Royal Opera House, May 13, 2015.

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Woolf sightings: From poetry to sci fi to lit crit

Posted in events, performance, play, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 8 April 2015| Leave a Comment »

Woolf sightings appear online daily, and Blogging Woolf posts the briefest of them on Facebook. Again today we have gathered a few to share with readers here as well. Here they are:

  • Anne Fernald speaks about editing the Cambridge edition of Mrs. Dalloway at Widener University.Last Two Seconds
  • Read the notes at the end of the book of poetry The Last Two Seconds by St. Louis poet Mary Jo Bang, and you’ll discover that six of the poems borrow their words from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
  • It’s no surprise when sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin says she was inspired by Woolf’s Orlando.
  • Ann Hamilton and the SITI Company’s “the theater is a blank page,” on stage at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, April 23-26, uses text from To the Lighthouse.
  • Woolf’s A Writer’s Life was a lifesaver for this writer.
  • Woolf is cited in a Guardian article about the Vida study that says male writers continue to dominate literary criticism.

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