Albret Music Festival: Shakespeare's Sister!

Theater | Shakespeare’s Sister by Juliette Marie, based on Virginia Woolf
Directed by: Juliette Marie Starring: Inès Amoura and Solenn Goix
Have you heard of Judith Shakespeare? Virginia Woolf met her—the forgotten sister of the great playwright, as wonderfully gifted and adventurous as he was. Virginia and Judith juxtapose and collide, like voices in the dark, speaking to us across the centuries.
Genius is androgynous: what if Shakespeare had had a sister as brilliant as he was, but condemned to silence? Judith finally takes the stage.
By giving women fewer resources, aren’t we depriving ourselves of an essential part of artistic creation?
Virginia Woolf, in 1928 in A Room of One’s Own, already posed this eminently relevant question. She imagines her free, rebellious, and as talented as her brother, yet prevented from writing...