Waves 2006

a work devised by Katie Mitchell and the Company
from the text of Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves

'An extraordinary show: spellbinding, sophisticated and moving'
Sunday Times

In the beginning, there was a nursery, with windows opening on to a garden, and beyond that the sea.

A fragmented and dreamlike tale of friendship, loss, identity and love.

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched – love for instance – we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

A multi-media production based on Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking experiment in literary form, The Waves.

'Theatre and video come together so seamlessly and complement each other so exquisitely it is as if Mitchell, her actors and video artist Leo Warner have created an entirely new art form.'
Guardian Unlimited

Read more about The Waves on Wikipedia and Virginai Woolf on Encycolpaedia Britannica.
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photo by Stephen Cummiskey