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VIRGINIA WOOLF’S novels Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, along with extracts from her letters, essays and diaries, are the source material for this new work by the great choreographer Wayne McGregor.

In collaboration with composer-musician Max Richter, he’s come up with a thrilling interpretation of the literary source material.

It’s a spectacular triptych which homes in on micro-moments of emotion and tragedy in the writings, with the sensual narrative drive of I Now, I Then a departure from McGregor’s usual adventures in abstraction.

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