Dalloway 100 at the Charleston Festival

Date: 14/5/25

Speakers: Caleb Azumah Nelson, Edmund de Waal, Deborah Levy

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Wednesday 14 May, 7:30pm, Festival Tent at the Charleston Festival. Tickets: £20 for RSL Members and Fellows. RSL Members and Fellows are invited to a pre-event drinks reception from 6pm in the Orchard Tent. Not a Member? Join now! Public tickets can be purchased from the Charleston Festival here at £30 (Concessions available).

Charleston Festival marks the centenary of the publication of ‘Mrs Dalloway’ with an electrifying, multi-artform event blending music, readings and contemporary responses.

Inhabiting a fragmented and layered reality, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ weaves a lifetime of memories, regrets and desires into a single day. In today’s fractured world, Woolf’s dazzling exploration of alienation and intimacy feels as urgent as ever.

100 years to the day from publication, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Edmund de Waal and Deborah Levy take ‘Mrs Dalloway’ as the inspiration for three new pieces of work, while Chineke! Chamber Orchestra perform Florence B. Price’s ‘String Quartet No. 1 in G Major’ and movements from Max Richter’s ‘Woolf Works’, accompanied by readings from the novel.

Part of Charleston Festival 2025: 14–26 May 2025

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