A Room of One's Own - a new adaptation for the stage
at the London Library, 10th - 13th June, 2026.
Performed by Freya Mavor.
Directed by Roxana Silbert.

 

Virginia Woolf's extraordinary, provoking text that asks how can a woman write? This new adaptation for the stage examines why this remains a contemporary and urgent question one hundred years later.

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It is 1928, a woman is asked to talk about women and writing. In the university town of 'Oxbridge' she is refused entry to the gardens and library and discovers the poverty of the one female college there. She searches the British Museum library for proof that women ever existed in history and takes a deep dive into literature, Shakespeare and power. The answers she discovers are of the upmost importance not only to women, but for all people today.

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​​​​​'Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.​​​​​'