A dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's iconic essay, A Room of One's Own, filmed in the atmospheric spaces of The London Library.
This event is available to view as a recording until 13 June. Tickets can be purchased below.
To mark the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s death, we celebrate one of the most important works of her life. Her iconic 1928 feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own, explores the silence and erasure of women's voices from literature throughout the centuries and considers the conditions a writer needs to thrive and become great. Funny, sharp and insightful, it is a powerful call for women's creative and intellectual freedom.
Filmed in the atmospheric spaces of The London Library, where Woolf, a long-standing member, would once have browsed the book stacks, Charlotte Westenra directs actors Nina Sosanya, Colin Tierney and Sophie Melville in Linda Marshall Griffiths’ dramatic adaptation of this ground-breaking work, which still resonates today.
A version of this dramatisation was first broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2020, directed by Nadia Molinari.
Linda Marshall Griffiths is a playwright for theatre and sound. Her recent work includes The Secret Garden (Leeds Playhouse, 2022), No Place but the Water (a podcast for BBC Sounds), The Invisible (Radio 3) and the award-winning The Sky is Wider, an experiment in sound. Other works include a contemporary re-imagining of Charlotte Bronte's Villette (Leeds Playhouse), Orpheus and Eurydice and Pomegranate (Royal Exchange Manchester).
Charlotte Westenra is an Olivier Award-winning stage director and dramaturg specialising in political theatre and new writing. Her most recent productions are The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Southwark Playhouse) and On Hostile Ground (Royal & Derngate). Previous credits include My Dad’s A Birdman by David Almond (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Honk Honk You Donky Donk by Jack Thorne (Old Vic); Bloody Sunday with Nicolas Kent (Tricycle) and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Donmar/Trafalgar Studios).
N.B. This is an online event. You will be sent a link 24hrs before the event and the link will remain valid until the end of 13 June.
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Transcription for this event is available.
Ticket holders will receive a 10% discount to buy all festival books from Hatchards until 13 June with their ticket.
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