A Post-modern reinterpretation of the first post-modernist? I thought this article in the NY Times on a theatrical production of Virginia Woolf's last novel, "The Waves" was interesting. The show recently went up on Broadway and got a very favorable review, also in the Times. Thoughts?
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in particular, this is what I wanted to point more to--or one of the things (I was also hoping to find a clip of the Forsythe Company's "Woolf Phrase," a dance piece that involves (re)interpreting a little swath of language from her THE WAVES by dancing over it again and again--and was thinking of multimedia with interiority with what they did with a section of one of my first books) but:
Each character could be said to embody a different aspect of Woolf, who herself shows up in the production, chain smoking and reading from the omniscient narrative sections of “The Waves” and from personal diary entries in a flutelike upper-middle-class voice. It is clearly the voice that gives shape to all the other voices we hear, and the tone is sustained beautifully. (Only a recurring sexual joke, involving a banana, seems out of place.)
Jokes in Acker, like the fish (see not only PUSSY, but also the SEEING GENDER essay, elsewhere). But also see, if you are interested in writing on Woolf in some way, maybe, her essay on CINEMA: so would she see this piece, as it is being described, answering her reservations there in that essay?--url to the piece on another blog
http://modvisart.blogspot.com/2006/04/virginia-woolf-cinema-1926.html
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