I had no idea that Woolf ever wrote a play—why didn’t
she write more? I feel as though they would be pretty excellent, although
apparently this one is far from it. Freshwater
is a 1935 play she wrote to be produced in her sister’s studio, a satire of
her great-aunt’s circle and the social milieu in which she operated. The
Bloomsbury group would often put on little skits and parodies at parties at 46
Gordon Square, which now houses a school of arts with Birkbeck, University of
London. The English department faculty there held a reading of Freshwater last year, and you can find
the recording on their website here.
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