Firebrand Theatre Company to return to The Maltings with A Room of One’s Own

Its own new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s world-famous feminist essay A Room of One’s Own will be performed ‘in the round’ at The Maltings on Friday, November 1 from 8pm.

Directed by the award-winning Richard Baron, this ambitious one-woman show features the versatile Ellie Zeegen and engagingly reveals why the entertaining essay about freedom and identity has become one of the most significant feminist manifestos of that time, and any time.

A Room of One’s Own will mark Firebrand’s return to The Maltings after its very successful run of Oleanna by David Mamet back in 2012.

Although the essay was written in 1929 as a lecture delivered to the female undergraduates at Girton College, Cambridge, the new play unfurls as a historical and literary quest that is rich in delicious irony and spiced with a range of colourful character sketches.

Ellie said: “It is an honour to be playing a new stage version of Virginia Woolf – the woman, the female activist and one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century.

“To give voice to her words and her, at times, humorous and ground-breaking interpretation of how women have been viewed in society over centuries goes some way to bringing both her and her fictional Shakespeare’s sister back to life via a literary argument that truly transcends the passage of time.”

For more details about the performance and to book tickets, call 01289 330999 or go to www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/firebrand-theatre-company-presents-a-room-of-ones-own