Virginia Woolf's funny, provoking and insightful feminist text on female creativity dramatised for radio by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
It is 1928, and a woman is asked to talk of women and writing. She takes a walk in the university town of 'Oxbridge' where she is refused entry to the gardens and to the library and discovers the poverty of the one female college there. She decides to hunt through the British Museum for proof that women even existed in history.
She imagines what would have happened if Shakespeare had had a sister and imagines conversations with the great British female novelists, and so comes to an understanding of the difficulties that face the female writer and women who want to have a creative life.
She proposes a different kind of life for a woman.
Cast:
Woman ..... Indira Varma
Mary Seton/ Charlotte Bronte ..... Jenny Platt
Judith Shakespeare/Jane Austen/Mary Carmichael ..... Anjli Mohindra
William Shakespeare/ Nick Green .... Sacha Dhawan
Trevelyan/Shakespeare's Father ..... Colin Tierney
Directed by Nadia Molinari for BBC Radio 4
52MB. 57 Min, 128kbps
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This sounds very interesting. Thanks, William!
Thanks! Hope you are well....take care!