Bloomsbury Silliness: Rediscovering Virginia Woolf’s Play

“Yes, Woolf wrote a play. There is a good reason why you’ve probably never heard of it: it’s pretty terrible. First written in 1923, and then revised for a performance at Vanessa Bell’s art studio in 1935, Freshwater is a gentle satire of the bohemian world of her great-aunt” and centering on the the young actress Ellen Terry’s departture from her marriage to a middle-aged painter to “lead a life of corruption […] in Bloomsbury.”