Freshwater is the only play Virginia Woolf ever wrote, and it is unlike anything you’d expect from her. It’s a farce, a romp through the Victorian past. It’s an inside joke she wrote for and performed with her friends. The play takes aim at the cultural elite of the 19th century, including Woolf’s own great aunt the renowned photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, as well as celebrated actor Ellen Terry, and famed poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Bloomsbury group, Woolf’s artistic circle, has their fun through a send-up of an artistic group very much like theirs, two generations earlier. Both groups were filled with painters, actors, poets, and writers, looking to innovate and prove themselves as artists. Rarely produced, and often imagined as unstageable, Freshwater is a rollicking good time.

Dr. Kelley Holley

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5 - 8 Dec, 2024

Unstageably Fresh Gynt · Rochester Institute of Technology School of Performing Arts

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