SITI woolf in nyc

the SITI company is giving a reading of Virginia Woolf's Freshwater:



>>Virginia Woolf wrote Freshwater on a lark for her friends and family to put on during idle hours. She wrote the play both as relief from her own tough labor during the writing of her masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway and as an unmitigated entertainment to share with those closest to her. The play is eccentric and delightful, full of literary references juxtaposed with almost surrealistic situations. She created a deliberately witty and wacky universe and she cast her family and friends as the characters in the play.

Our production is an embodiment of Woolf’s adventurous spirit – a theatrical escapade that taps into our shared social human impulse to entertain one another. The actors and audience are transported together into a Victorian garden on a summer evening. Freshwater is an amusement, a variety show of sorts, acted out by an exotic yet familiar tribe in a playful mood. SITI will premiere this work, directed by Anne Bogart and featuring 6 SITI Company actors and the SITI design team, at The Women's Project in January 2009. SITI will present a free reading of the play on Thursday May 22 at 7pm at The Women's Project. Seating is limited; to make reservations email your name, number in your party, and phone number to reservations@siti.org by 2pm Wednesday May 21.<<