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To the Lighthouse
A summer holiday on the Isle of Skye is the setting for Virginia Woolf's most acclaimed and autobiographical novel in which she attempted to redeem and release the ghosts of her past.
Mrs. Ramsay, a beautiful mother who Woolf modelled on her own mother, is the centre of a bustling household of eight children, an egotistical and coldly rational husband and their visiting friends: a painter, scientist, poet and young academic.
The story begins when James, the youngest child wishes to visit the lighthouse, a hope encouraged by Mrs. Ramsay but quickly crushed by Mr. Ramsay's unfeeling reason. As the years pass and tragedy strikes the family, the visit takes on symbolic meaning and becomes an exploration of time, death and artistic transcendence.
Adapted by Eileen Atkins, this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation stars Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Ramsay, John Wood as Mr. Ramsay, Juliet Stevenson as the painter Lily Briscoe and Edward Petherbridge as the scientist William Banks. It was first broadcast from 26 March to 2 April 2000.
Mrs. Ramsay, a beautiful mother who Woolf modelled on her own mother, is the centre of a bustling household of eight children, an egotistical and coldly rational husband and their visiting friends: a painter, scientist, poet and young academic.
The story begins when James, the youngest child wishes to visit the lighthouse, a hope encouraged by Mrs. Ramsay but quickly crushed by Mr. Ramsay's unfeeling reason. As the years pass and tragedy strikes the family, the visit takes on symbolic meaning and becomes an exploration of time, death and artistic transcendence.
Adapted by Eileen Atkins, this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation stars Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Ramsay, John Wood as Mr. Ramsay, Juliet Stevenson as the painter Lily Briscoe and Edward Petherbridge as the scientist William Banks. It was first broadcast from 26 March to 2 April 2000.
2 pages, Audio Cassette
Published August 7, 2000
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Eileen Atkins
33 books5 followersDame Eileen June Atkins, DBE is an English actress and screenwriter. Atkins joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1957 and made her Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967. She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1972), Indiscretions (1995) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004).
Atkins co-created the television dramas Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) and The House of Elliot (1991–1994) with Jean Marsh. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Mrs Dalloway.
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Atkins co-created the television dramas Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) and The House of Elliot (1991–1994) with Jean Marsh. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Mrs Dalloway.
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