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1976 · JJ18827 — New York: Harcourt Brace 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A small archive around this posthumously published work offered here. Espace Theatral - Compagnie Simone Benmussa Presenta Freshwater Spoleto: Arti Grafiche Panetto & Petrelli 1984. Broadside for the 27th Festival dei Due Mondi performance of the French version of Freshwater translated by Elisabeth Janvier and directed by Ottorino Neri; text printed in green and black on white signed in ink by Nathalie Sarraute Alain Robbe-Grillet Guy Dumur Florence Delay Eugène Ionesco Rodica Ionesco Jean-Paul Aron Raffaello de Banfield Catherine Robbe-Grillet who acted in the play along with stage manager Dominique Ehlinger poster and signatures somewhat faded mounted on board; 27 ½ x 13 1/2 in. <br/><br/>Together with Freshwater. Traduit de l'Anglais et Preface par Elisabeth Janvier Paris: Editions des Femmes 1981 octavo illustrated softcover signed by cast members of New York University Playhouse performance on the 20th of October 1981. Freshwater a Comedy New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976 stated first American edition octavo illustrated by Edward Gorey bound in publisher's cloth with dust jacket; and a softcover reprint with Gorey's illustrations from 1985. <br /> <br />In 1982 French director Simone Benmussa organized a production of Virginia Woolf's 1935 play for her centenary celebration at the Pompidou Center in Paris. The performance featured renowned French authors and artists and garnered widespread critical and public acclaim. The following year the production moved to New York's University Playhouse for two performances. <br /> <br />"Virginia Woolf would've loved NYU's 'Freshwater.' Queen Victoria floating onstage on a jaunty white rocking horse is played by a distinguished male French sociologist wearing a wig and layers of black lace. A porpoise dressed in tie and tails obligingly swallows the wedding ring of a young actress who decides to leave her husband. The English poet Alfred Tennyson adoringly reads his own works in French to anyone who will listen. He is wearing a long Santa Claus beard and is played by - believe it or not - one of the founders of the theater of the absurd himself Eugene Ionesco. All the jovial incongruous absurdity that went into the New York University production of ''Freshwater'' two nights only Oct. 20 and 21 would have undoubtedly delighted its author Virginia Woolf. The very fact of the production itself would probably have surprised her even more. The production will be offered in Paris on Nov. 7." Quoted from Kristin Helmore and Grace D. Polk's review in the Christian Science Monitor November 1 1983. Harcourt Brace hardcover