Woolf and the beauty of words
Friday 7 March 2008 by Paula Maggio
Words can open our minds, stir our feelings, and touch our souls.
Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, says the words of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway did even more. They cracked the world open for him.
Read the interview.
Speaking of words — Woolf’s, that is — a reviewer credits them with making the barren set of the stage adaptation of “Orlando” both “vivid and fantastical.”
The play, written by Sarah Ruhl, stars American Conservatory Theater’s master’s program students. It is on stage at the Zeum Theater in San Francisco. Read the review in the UC Berkeley student newspaper.
Fascinating. I do say it time and time again to anyone who’ll listen - Woolf’s use of language seems unparalleled in anything else I’ve read.