National Theatre / Waves/ Katie Mitchell

A fantastic adaptation, one that pays tribute to Woolf's remarks about genre in Orlando: "More forms and stranger!"
Only complaint: Percival is re-romanticized, when in The Waves Woolf worked so strenuously and bravely to examine myths and ideologies of heroism, Greek to Imperial masculinity and might, cults of worship (while waves of fascism were spreading across the continent). That said, Mitchell's Waves is magnificent, visually stunning, wildly inventive, and powerfully moving--a must see.

saw it in new york today. fantastic staging, very successful experimental theater.

was kate duchene in it?

Yup she was! When one of my mates went to New York to see it in November, Kate was full of a nasty cold and had to blow her nose ever-so-often. There was no backstage but a screen, or something so they could go behind there while not on stage. And when Kate was setting her props, she went behind the screen, someone put their arms around her and she leaned her head on their shoulder as she felt so terrible!! Poor Kate, bless her little cotton socks! xx

I'd love to watch this play,the National theatre has done an amazing work.Kate Duchene is a great actress.I really wish Waves would come to Greece so i can see it.Unfortunately it won't come here.

I'm happy to say Waves is on an international tour later this year.

It's visiting Leeds, Salford, Bath, Dublin, The Hague, Luxembourg and New York.

Does it only show in London do you know ?? I'm in Scotland and I can't go down. I would well go for Kate to.

The Waves is a ridiculously difficult book, even for Woolf. Can anyone tell me, in short, its meaning? Or what it is about?

Unfortunately, you're not supposed to be able to make sense of it.
It's a reflection on how we can't make sense of life.

But i recently saw this in manchester and its much easier to understand, well i mean it's easier to not understand it.

If you know what i mean?

You cannot really summarize The Waves, but I'll try. :)
It is an exploration of six lives told through stream of conscious first person narrative. It is not about any one thing, it is about everything that makes a life. That said, I wish I could see this production.