Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Vita & Virginia is a film adaptation of Eileen Atkins’s 1992 play of the same name, based on love letters Virginia Woolf exchanged over the course of a decade-long affair with Vita Sackville-West, the inspiration behind Woolf’s 1928 novel, Orlando: A Biography. Directed by Chanya Button, the biopic stars Gemma Arterton as West, Elizabeth Debicki as Woolf, and Isabella Rossellini as Baroness Sackville.
Tags: Not Genre-Specific | Vita & Virginia | 2018 | movie trailer | trailer | film adaptation | play | 1992 | Eileen Atkins | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | biopic | Orlando: A Biography -
Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography (Mariner Books, 1973), adapted by Darryl Pinckney, was transformed into a music theater performance by director Cathie Boyd's Scottish production company Cryptic. Pinckney is the author of Black Deutschland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), a new novel exploring sexuality and identity.
Tags: Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Mariner Books | 2016 | Darryl Pinckney | Black Deutschland | Virginia Woolf | Orlando: A Biography | 1973 | theater | performance | Cathie Boyd | Cryptic | Fiction | Cross-Genre
