Heather Alexander’s unique dramatic interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own explores Woolf’s fundamental ideas about gender, creativity and thwarted opportunity. The play explores Woolf’s ideas in a bold and provocative production where we experience the narrator moving seamlessly between her study, lecture room, the British Museum and Oxbridge locations as she forms her ideas from her stream-of-consciousness musings. The text remains as relevant and important today as it invites the audience to reflect upon what and how much has changed?

All the famous passages from the essay are here: the stark realisation that poverty is an unacceptable bar to women writing (still widely relevant today), the story of Shakespeare’s imaginary sister and the recognition that women must exist in relation to the world and each other; not just as foils for men. This is the Bechdel Test, many years early.

‘As a condensation and enactment of Virginia Woolf’s seminal text this can’t be improved on. The outstanding one-person show I’ve seen this Fringe.’

Simon Jenner, Fringe Review 2022