'Here I am, here and now and in motion.'
Morning, Westminster, 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, socialite and perfect political wife, collects flowers for the party she'll host tonight. Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran decimated by the First World War, waits to meet his physician. As the day marches on to the chimes of Big Ben, fragments of conversations and chance observations spark memories, yearnings and foreboding. Two lives, lived apart but in parallel, will soon connect with life-changing consequence.
In former RSC Writer-in-Residence Zoe Cooper's artful adaptation of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel, characters dance between reality and memory, swooping in and out of each other's thoughts.
Set in a city suspended between the aftermath of war and future unrest, Mrs Dalloway is a deep exploration of interior lives, the agony and ecstasy of queer love and the magnetic power of human connection. Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey directs in the Swan Theatre.
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CREATIVES
Director Tamara Harvey | Set and Costume Designer Anna Fleischle | Lighting Designer Ryan Day | Sound Designer Claire Windsor | Movement Director Lucie Pankhurst | Dramaturg Elizabeth Freestone | Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG
BOOKING INFORMATION
Priority booking opens for all newly announced productions:
Artists Circle / Gold Patrons Monday 5 October
Silver Patrons Wednesday 7 October
Bronze Patrons Thursday 8 October
Members Wednesday 14 October
Subscribers Tuesday 20 October
Public Booking Wednesday 21 October
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New Work at the RSC is generously supported by Hawthornden Foundation and The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust
