With passages from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,
and stanzas from The Land and The Garden
by Vita Sackville-West.
Through a mixture of passionate story-telling and acting, Vanessa conveys the literary world in the mid-1920s, thus ‘bringing literature to life’. Whether she portrays a countrywoman’s love of rural Kent, or the figures of sensitive mother and flamboyant father in To the Lighthouse, she penetrates the whole performance with a keen sense of a writer’s insight.
‘a magical presence’
‘a compelling combination of gravitas and fancifulness’
Priscilla Gilman
Former Professor of English at Yale and Vassar
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