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...woman must have money and a room of one's own if she is to write fiction." It is around this ungrammatical but vivid observation that A Room of One's Own, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book of the same name, is based. This play is a witty, thoughtful but often tedious reworking of the book...
Eileen Atkins, playing Woolf in this one-woman show, manages to hold the play together skillfully. Apart from a striking resemblance to Woolf, with her sharp features and elongated face, Atkins' movements and voice have the rather brittle, jerky quality one might expect from Woolf herself. Atkins also demonstrates the almost androgynous aura that Woolf exudes in her book...
Patrick Garland, the director (and, incidentally, the person who adapted A Room of One's Own) has developed a format that is sufficiently entertaining to sustain the audience's attention. Garland retains the basic structure of the book, which consists of a series of lectures delivered by Woolf on the uplifting topic of Women and Fiction...
...lecture, delivered to a group of women college students in 1928, deals with what Woolf calls "the reprehensible poverty of our sex"--i.e. why women are not taught "the great art of making money." The play focuses on Woolf's opinion concerning women's need for a private income. A Room of One's Own gives little mention of her views on women's need for privacy, making the title of the play seem somewhat obsolete. "Fiction should stick to facts," as Woolf herself says. And that is a criticism which one could make of the play. Although it captures...
...those were the days of volumnious letter-writers. Virginia Woolf wrote six volumes full of letters. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote so many letters advising friends to visit America before they missed the ill-fated boat of democracy that 130 years after his death, they haven't all been published...