A Room of One’s Own

In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s best-known work, Ms. Kettles portrays the writer as she declares that a woman must have money and a room of her own to be a writer. She imagines Shakespeare having a talented sister, whose life would have been drastically different from the Bard’s, trying to follow in her brother’s footsteps, but running into the obstacles placed before women at the time. Room is a very personal account of Woolf’s journey, trials, and ultimate triumphs as a woman seeking to make her voice heard in a man’s world.

Anne-Lynne Kettles is no stranger to portraying legendary women onstage. Dallas Morning News raved that “Ms. Kettles hits this one right out of the park” Maria Callas in Stage West’s Master Class, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram described her as “nothing less than heroic.” Sharon Benge, Director of the Drama Program at Texas Woman’s University, is the founding director of Fort Worth’s “Shakespeare in the Park,” and has served in administrative capacities at Fort Worth’s Casa Mañana Playhouse, the Fort Worth Arts Council, and the Dallas Theater Center. She served for seven years as the project director and co-founder of Fort Worth’s “RadioShack RetroFest,” a biannual 90-day festival involving over 50 arts and educational organizations.