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Maynard Keynes play on stage in London Sept. – Dec.

Posted in events, John Maynard Keynes, play, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Saturday 22 August 2026| 2 Comments »

Pioneer. Visionary. Rebel. That’s how economist and Bloomsbury Group member John Maynard Keynes is portrayed in a new play on stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London for a limited run Sept. 21 – Dec. 12.

Titled The Standard of Living, the play is written by James Graham and directed by Nicholas Hytner. It is billed as the story of how Keynes — husband to ballerina Lydia Lopokova, lover to Duncan Grant, and friend to Virginia Woolf — moved between the corridors of power in Whitehall and his circle of creative, rule-breaking friends.

It also explores the question: What is a good life? while markets crash, old systems crumble and Britain teeters on the edge of chaos.

Including music, dance, desire and debate, The Standard of Living is being called “a thrilling, funny and deeply moving portrait of a man who dared to imagine something better.”

Get tickets

Performances:
Monday – Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Thursday to Saturday 7:3 p.m.
Thursday & Saturday 2:30 p.m.

Tickets from £25, are available through the Theatre Royal Haymarket website.

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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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