The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924

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I am shirking Bobo's rehearsal, which I meant to describe. Miss Craig is a rosy, ruddy 'personage' in white waistcoat, with black bow tie & gold chain loosely knotted.

Stop those monkey tricks, do Saunders - & let us have some light.

Miss Craig (Saunders stands right up to the footlights & shouts through her hollowed hands:) 'There's a short on the battens Miss Craig.'

Let's have the floats then...

Now, all of you.  I want you to listen carefully to the music.  Make the movements that suggest themselves to you.

...as usual, it is the atmosphere I want to get.  The supple, candid, free & easy good sense of theatrical manners, as I noted them at tea.

excerpt from 'The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924' pp. 174 (115 words)

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