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Life in squares. Episode 3 / written by Amanda Coe ; producer, Rhonda Smith ; directed by Simon Kajiser ; Ecosse Films for BBC in association with Tiger Aspect Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961--Drama.
- Bell, Vanessa.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Drama.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Families--England--Drama.
- Families.
- Bloomsbury group--Drama.
- Bloomsbury group.
- England--Social life and customs--20th century--Drama.
- England.
- Genre:
- Fiction television programs.
- Television mini-series.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Penned by Bafta-winner Amanda Coe, Life in Squares dramatizes the extraordinary lives of the Bloomsbury Group, a profoundly influential set of artists and intellectuals. Told over 40 years, from the death of Queen Victoria to the Second World War, the story centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa's sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant. Surrounded by the finest progressive minds of the day - including the renowned writer Lytton Strachey, art critic Clive Bell, and pioneering economist Maynard Keynes - they are determined to shake off the shackles of Victorian England. As the narrative shifts between the decades, their earlier and later lives intertwine; by the 1930s, Vanessa has settled into marriage and motherhood, and Virginia is enjoying huge public acclaim. But the emotional entanglements of their past have taken their toll - can the sisters truly escape the pall cast by their repressive parents, or will they ultimately inflict the same mistakes on generations to come?
- Participant:
- Eve Best, Phoebe Fox, James Norton, Rupert Penry-Jones, Lydia Leonard, Catherine McCormack, Andrew Havill, Guy Henry.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 17, 2021).
- Originally produced in Great Britain and broadcast on television in 2015.
- OCLC:
- 1245590423
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