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Vita & Virginia
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 11, 2008
Closed Apr 28, 2008

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http://www.thezipperfactory.com

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Kathleeen Chalfant and Patricia Elliott will star in Vita & Virginia, adapted by Eileen Atkins from the correspondence between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Pamela Berlin directs.

The play takes place in the 1920s and 1930s and through the first years of WWII. It deals, in a very timely way, with women seeking their place in the world as they face personal and professional conflicts as well as the looming world war.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



The Zipper Factory
336 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

One of the lesser reasons to see -- and listen raptly to --
Vita & Virginia, now playing on Monday nights at the Zipper Factory, is that plays based on correspondence are about to become an endangered species. Let's put it this way: Had close friends and eventual lovers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West been able to text each other between 1924 and 1941, it's doubtful that adapter Eileen Atkins would have had the wealth of material available to arrange Vita & Virginia for herself and Vanessa Redgrave to enact in 1994 and for Kathleen Chalfant and Patricia Elliott to revisit now in this elegant revival.


Vita (Elliott) and Virginia (Chalfant) first met at a "marvelous party" (in the [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Feb 20, 2008

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