Eileen Atkins' Play VITA AND VIRGINIA to Be Adapted to Big Screen

Deadline reports that director Chanya Button will bring Dame Eileen Atkins' play VITA AND VIRGINIA to the big screen. The story follows the romance and friendship of famed authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

Mirror Productions' Evangelo Kioussis will produce alongside Katie Holly of Blinder Films and Simon Baxter who will serve as executive producer.

In 1994, VITA AND VIRGINIA ran at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theater and starred Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins. A revival was produced at the Zipper Factory Theater in 2008 featuring Kathleen Chalfant and Patricia Elliott in the starring roles.

Woolf's most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929). The author suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been what is now termed bipolar disorder. She committed suicide at the age of 59.

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