A Gala Performance to Help Save Charleston, Maggie Smith in Virginia: A New Play by Edna O'Brien from the Lives and Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf

Welwyn Garden City: Bournehall Press, 1981 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7.5". Angelica Garnett. An exceptionally scarce Limited Edition programme for a gala raising funds for the preservation of Charleston Farmhouse. Signed by Quentin Bell, Angela Garnett, Sir Hugh Casson and Richard Shone. A very scarce signed programme for the 3rd February 1981 performance of Edna O'Brien's play 'Virginia', starring Maggie Smith, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.Proceeds from the performance went to the maintenance and preservation of Charleston Farmhouse, the East Essex home of Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell and her husband Duncan Grant, a location integral to the social lives of the Bloomsbury Group.Signed by four contributors to the work, and associated of the Bloomsbury Group; British architect Sir Hugh Casson, a Patron of the Charleston Trust; artist, painter and writer Angela Garnett, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, who created the cover design of the work; art historian Richard Shone, who contributed the article 'Duncan Grant's View of her Genius' to this work, and, finally, Quentin Bell, the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf. His article 'Charleston - the legend that must live on', is also featured.Featuring a number of contemporary advertisements, this is programme No. 355. of a limited number produced. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, lovely, with a small number of light spots to tail of front wrap. Light spotting to reverse of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed