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New play “I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too” in London now

Posted in events, play, tagged , , , , on Tuesday 4 November 2025| Leave a Comment »

There are five days left to see a new play, “I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too,” which is playing through Nov. 9 at Barons Court Theatre in London.

Written by actor and writer Coline Atterbury, the play is part of the Voila! Europe Theatre Festival 2025, which runs through Nov. 23.

About the play

The play follows Victoria, a writer in the grip of a manic creative surge. As her obsession with Virginia Woolf deepens, fiction and reality blur — until she begins to believe she is Virginia.

Entangled in a love triangle with Mark, a restless drifter, and Leon, a sharp-witted academic, Victoria’s desires refuse easy categorization. The triangle reflects both her queerness and her fragmentation, blurring boundaries between friendship, love and obsession as she unravels in a world where ambition and mental illness collide.

Threaded loosely with Woolf’s stories and themes, the play explores bipolar disorder, identity and relationships, combining emotional intensity with humor.

Location: Barons Court, 28A Comeragh Rd, The Curtains Up Pub, London W14 9HR

Tickets: £15

To book and for more information: Visit the website.

Instagram post by Coline Atterbury that includes an excerpt from an interview with Binge Fringe Magazine.

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“Dalloway: Summer at Bourton” staged free Oct. 20 in NYC

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, play, tagged , on Saturday 19 October 2024| Leave a Comment »

A workshop presentation of the play Dalloway: Summer at Bourton, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, will be staged at 3 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the 6BC Botanical Garden, 624 E. 6th St. on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The play imagines the fateful weekend that the characters experience 35 years before the main events of the novel. It explores the time when Clarissa meets Richard, refuses Peter’s proposal, and shares a kiss with Sally Seton. The garden was chosen as the site for the staging since much of the action at Bourton happens outside in the gardens.

Lindsay Joelle wrote the play and Olivia Facini directs it. Admission is free. The play runs from 3 – 4:30 p.m. and doors open at 2:30 p.m. RSVP and get more details at Eventbrite.

In the case of inclement weather, the presentation will move to New Georges’ The Room (520 8th Ave, third floor).

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First staged reading of Woolf’s play Freshwater in Turkish

Posted in play, Turkey, tagged , , on Saturday 12 October 2024| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater: A Comedy made its first appearance in Turkish in Turkey on Sept. 6, 100 years after it was written.

A scene in the staged reading of Woolf’s Freshwater in Turkish on Sept. 6. Photo by Tuğba Çanakçı & Alperen Yedekçi.

The panel discussion of the play and the staged reading were part of the 2nd International UTAD Conference, with its theme of “Existence, Tradition and Future.” It was held at Bahçeşehir University’s Pera Sahne.

A panel discussion led by Prof. Dr. Özyurt Kılıç and joined by Associate Professor Dr. Z. Gizem Yılmaz, introduced the audience to Woolf’s exploration of the boundaries between life and art, and how Freshwater fits into her broader body of work. Following the discussion, the play was performed as a staged reading.

Professor Kılıç describes the play as an example of “audience-specific drama,” providing a unique and thought-provoking experience for attendees. It is also said to give theatre scholars an opportunity to explore the multi-layered meaning of the play.

Background of the play

Freshwater concerns Woolf’s great-aunt, photographer Julie Margaret Cameron. and her coterie of artists that included Alfred Lord Tennyson and George Frederick Watts.

Woolf wrote Freshwater, which is set in a Victorian garden on a summer evening, in 1923 and revised it in 1935. In it, she creates “a deliberately witty and wacky universe peopled with a tribe of artists, friends, and lovers in a playful mood,” according to the Women’s Project. In its time, the play was praised for its humor and its challenge to traditional theatre norms.

It was staged for the first time in the U.S. in early 2009.

Get the Turkish translation online

Ercan Gürova’s translation, presented with a foreword by Özyurt Kılıç, was published by Mitos Boyut Yayınları and can be accessed online.

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Did you know? Maggie Smith played Virginia Woolf

Posted in play, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged , , on Sunday 6 October 2024| Leave a Comment »

We have to thank the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain for sharing the connection between Dame Maggie Smith, who died Sept. 27, and Virginia Woolf.

Below is information from their Facebook post of Sept. 29.

Although recently known as the Dowager Countess, Violet Crawley, in the TV series “Downton Abbey” (2000–15), Smith played Virginia Woolf in Edna O’Brien’s play “Virginia” in 1981. She won her third Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, beginning January 29, 1981.

In that same year the play script was published under the Hogarth Press imprint, with photographs of Maggie Smith and Virginia Woolf on the cover.You can see pictures from the book and the programme below.

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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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