Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister by
When her sister, Virginia Woolf, dies by suicide the painter Vanessa Bell is plunged into the past as she struggles to understand who she is in the world without this central relationship in her life. A theatrical piece that draws from and is inspired by the autobiographical writings of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. This new play explores grief, identity, the effects of inner passivity and repressed memory,...
When her sister, Virginia Woolf, dies by suicide the painter Vanessa Bell is plunged into the past as she struggles to understand who she is in the world without this central relationship in her life. A theatrical piece that draws from and is inspired by the autobiographical writings of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. This new play explores grief, identity, the effects of inner passivity and repressed memory, loving someone with a mental illness, the transformative power of art, and the ability we have to reimagine the past and change our present.