The challenges of creating work about an historical character

Lucy Stevens talks to Kate Saffin about the challenges of creating work about an historical character, the sources she draws on, and weaving it all together.

Woolf’s clarity on women when ‘writing one’s mind’, championed writers from our past to inspire the voices of our future. This new solo show written and performed by Lucy Stevens draws on a withering critique of patriarchy delivered by Virginia Woolf in 1931 alongside many of the writers Woolf admired and was influenced by.