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Initial publication date September 28, 2019
> At the end of the first day of the Orleans conference “Women on stage, women in the theater”, organized in Orléans by the Mix-Cité association, was played at the Gérard Philipe de la Source theater, an adaptation of the cult text that Virginia Woolf wrote in 1928 “A room of your own”.
Virginia Woolf’s manifesto, delivered at a conference, asks the question, the obviousness of which has yet to be established: why women have so much difficulty in becoming an author and finding their true place in literary history? Virginia Woolf’s answer, summarized in this synthetic formula “A room of your own” as a metaphor for the autonomy of women in English patriarchal society, is updated in a production by Marie Paule Ramo which combines simplicity and efficiency. Alone on stage, accompanied by an old-fashioned travel trunk, actress Nathalie Prokhoris, in a sober, slightly traditional British costume, will take up Virginia Woolf’s flawless argument to list all the social and financial obstacles. , material, cultural that lie across the career of a woman writer, enumeration said with a soft and calm voice, a little as if their grandmother was addressing the young people, many, present in the room this Thursday evening .
As the president of mix-cité, Monique Lemoine, pointed out at the opening of the conference, evoking “A coalition of differences” speaking of feminism today, alongside certain more provocative actions such as those of the Femens, the protest of Virginia Woolf taken up by this piece gives it an absolute force which is clearly inscribed in the consciousness of the public. And when Virginia Woolf raises the hypothetical question of the literary fate of Shakespeare’s sister, a real emotion touches us at the evocation of these literary lives too often shattered by so many material or intellectual contingencies.
Virginia Woolf’s final invitation to fight to find the space of vital freedom for any personal and artistic expression, a condition for any personal fulfillment, finds a real echo in the young and old.
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