Posted: Wed., Jul. 23, 2008, 3:41pm PT

Women's Project picks Woolf play

'Freshwater' will topline Off Broadway schedule

A little-seen play by Virginia Woolf toplines the 2008-09 season at Off Broadway's Women's Project.

Woolf's 1923 play "Freshwater," which has never been professionally produced in the U.S., follows a group of artists spending a summer evening in a Victorian garden. Staging is helmed by Anne Bogart, whose troupe SITI Company co-presents the production, running Jan. 15-Feb. 15.

Before that, Saviana Stanescu's "Aliens with Extraordinary Skills" will have its world preem at the Women's Project this fall.

A black comedy about emigres in search of a green card, the play by Romanian scribe Stanescu will be directed by Tea Alagic. Production runs Sept. 22-Oct. 26.

Also on the Women's Project bill is a site-specific piece called "Global Cooling: The Women Chill," skedded for May.




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