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Freshwater
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 25, 2009
Closed Feb 15, 2009

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http://www.womensproject.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This one and only play by Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was written in 1923, revised in 1935, and is being revitalized in a collaboration between Women's Project and SITI Company for its first professional production in 2009.

In Freshwater, Virginia Woolf creates a deliberately witty and wacky universe peopled with a tribe of artists, friends and lovers in a playful mood. Legendary director Anne Bogart is at the helm of this theatrical escapade set in a Victorian garden on a summer evening, and a perfect diversion for audiences during the winter 2009.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Julia Miles Theater
424 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Fart jokes? Mooning? Surely these actions are not what Virginia Woolf had in mind in 1923 when she devised
Freshwater, a little amateur theatrical for her Bloomsbury buddies to put on. True, her script for the farce, now playing at the Women's Project, has its naughty bits (a double-entendre allusion to a wet dream, for instance); but director Anne Bogart and her SITI Company have pushed the puerility up several notches, achieving a Three Stooges-level of crude inanity, rather than trusting the text to yield sufficient humor.

Moreover, what was obviously just a playlet has been padded with all sorts of extraneous unfunny business in order to stretch out the evening's "entertainment" to an [...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Jan 26, 2009

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