Based on Virginia Woolf’s texts, personality and novel with the same title

Virginia Woolf was invited in 1928 to give a university lecture titled “Women and Fiction”. This lecture later became the foundation for her essay A Room of One’s Own. Now, in 2025, we revisit this lecture in the form of a factual and impersonal presentation, relying solely on the facts, free from any personal interpretation.

“For I am convinced that if we live another century, and have five hundred a year and a room of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we face the fact—for it is a fact—that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone, and that our relation is not only to the world of men and women but to reality itself, then the opportunity will come, and the dead poet who was Shakespeare’s sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.” V. W.

The performance was created as part of the Sufni-project mentor programme.