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Join @LitCamb students to see Vita and Virginia Aug. 6

Posted in events, play, Vita and Virginia, Vita Sackville-West, tagged , on Saturday 20 July 2024| Leave a Comment »

NKP Theatre Company’s production of a 60-minute abridged adaptation of Eileen Atkins’ play  Vita & Virginia will be on stage for one more performance this summer, this one in Cambridge in August.

Students in this summer’s Literature Cambridge course on Virginia Woolf and Childhood will view it for free, but some tickets are available to the general public.

About the play

Title of event: Vita and Virginia (abridged by NKP Theatre Company). 60 minutes. No interval.
Brief description: Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia’s most famous novels, Orlando. Abridged by the cast from the original play by Eileen Atkins, Vita and Virginia consists entirely of words spoken or written by Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf during their 20-year friendship. The production 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.

Credits: Vita Sackville-West: Emma Francis; Virginia Woolf: Ruth Cattell; directed and produced by Richard Delahaye.

Cambridge performance details

Date: Tuesday 6 August
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Robinson College Chapel, Cambridge CB3 9AN
Ticket Price and how to book: Free to members of the Literature Cambridge “Woolf and Childhood: summer course. A few tickets at £15 are for sale to those not attending the summer course. Book here.

What the reviews say

  • “A beautifully sensitive portrayal of a remarkable love story” – Claire Nicholson, chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
  • “An astonishing piece of theatre” – FRINGE REVIEW
  • “Emma Francis and Ruth Cattell smash it!” – EDINBURGH REVIEWS
  • “A wondrous exploration of the epistolary side of their near-romance”. -BROADWAY WORLD

Background

Four performances of the play were held February through April. An earlier performance was held in November at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham.

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Woolf and Childhood @LitCamb summer course

Posted in Literature Cambridge, Virginia Woolf, Vita and Virginia, Woolf Courses, tagged , , , on Thursday 18 April 2024| 1 Comment »

Woolf and Childhood is the theme for Literature Cambridge’s 2024 summer course, which runs twice: once live online and once in person at Cambridge University.

The course will explore the theme of childhood in Woolf’s fiction, and her own experience of childhood. How do her memories of childhood inform her fiction; and how does she think about children and childhood in her novels? Participants will study one work per day:

  • A Sketch of the Past (1939)

    Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives, Cornwall

  • Jacob’s Room (1922)
  • To the Lighthouse (1927)
  • The Waves (1931)
  • The Years (1937)

Live online and in person

Live online: The live online course runs 8-12 July for five days of intensive lectures, tutorials, talks, and more.

In person: The in person course will take place 4-9 August, with five days’ intensive study in person in Cambridge. There will be lectures, tutorials, talks, plus visits to places of interest in Cambridge, such as the Wren Library at Trinity College. As a sidenote, Woolf’s brothers studied at Trinity and she visited the college many times as a teenager and young adult.

The in person course will include a special performance of the play Vita and Virginia, a talk and recital of the music Woolf loved as a child and young adult, and more.

Accommodation is booked separately from the course. Literature Cambridge has reserved rooms at Robinson College, next to Clare Hall, the teaching venue. Bookings for Robinson are open. See details on Terms and Conditions for the link to Robinson and the code you need to use.

Attendees can also book a hotel, Air BNB or other accommodation. Please note that accommodation fills very quickly in Cambridge; do book as early as you can.

The in person course is filling up, so those interested are urged to sign up soon.

For more information

Contact info@literaturecambridge.co.uk with any questions.

Wren Library at Trinity College

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Four more of “Vita & Virginia” by @NKPTheatre

Posted in events, play, Virginia Woolf, Vita and Virginia, Vita Sackville-West, tagged , on Sunday 28 January 2024| 1 Comment »

NKP Theatre Company’s production of a 50-minute abridged adaptation of Eileen Atkins’ play  Vita & Virginia will be on stage for four more performances February through April.

An earlier performance was held in November at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham.

Dates and locations

Date: Saturday, Feb. 17
Times: 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Coach House Theatre, Malvern

Date: Wednesday April 3
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

Date: Thursday, April 4
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Katie Fitzgerald’s, Stourbridge

About the play

This is a 50-minute abridged version of the play by Eileen Atkins, created for an intimate setting by NKP Theatre Company. In it, Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They 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.

Ticket prices and how to book

Prices vary but are around £15.
Book here.

Emma Francis and Ruth Cattell smash it. Each gives incredible, powerful, provocative yet heart-felt, down-to-earth performances. – Edinburgh Review

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“Vita & Virginia” adaptation at The Mac Nov. 11

Posted in events, play, Vita and Virginia, Vita Sackville-West, tagged , , on Monday 30 October 2023| 2 Comments »

NKP Theatre Company’s production of a 50-minute adaptation of Eileen Atkins’ play Vita & Virginia will be on stage at the Midlands Arts Center (The Mac) in Birmingham for one performance only at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11.

The play was  recently staged at the Edinburgh Fringe in August and for members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

Here’s a quote from Andrew Girdwood in the Edinburgh Reviews:

Emma Francis and Ruth Cattell smash it. Each gives incredible, powerful, provocative yet heart-felt, down-to-earth performances.

About the show

Ticket price: From £11.50
Booking: Book here.
Location: The Midlands Arts Center (The Mac), Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
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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Vita and Virginia: the film is out

Posted in films, Vita and Virginia, Vita Sackville-West, tagged , , , on Monday 10 September 2018| Leave a Comment »

From the release of details about the film in 2015 to cast selection in the winter of 2017 to additional preparations made later that year, Blogging Woolf has kept readers informed about Vita and Virginia, the new film telling the love story of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Now that Chanya Button’s UK-Ireland feature film is about to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow, we have an update that includes the brief official trailer and a review link.

I imagine that most readers of Woolf are eager to see the film, which stars Elizabeth Debicki as Woolf and Gemma Arterton as Sackville-West. Arterton also served as the movie’s executive producer. And although I don’t know when it will be available in theaters, I am already enjoying this quote from the trailer:

Independence has no sex.

The Toronto Review wrote a negative review, stating that the film “attempts to manufacture chemistry by regurgitating chunks of the letters that Vita and Virginia wrote to each other.”

I guess we’ll have to wait until we see it ourselves before we can decide whether the film does more than that. I, for one, am hopeful that it does justice to both women.

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