Between the Acts

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf is set in a small English village on the eve of World War II, centered around the performance of a pageant directed by Miss La Trobe. The story unfolds over a single summer's day at the country home of the Oliver family, where the villagers gather to watch scenes from British history enacted in the garden. The pageant, interspersed with reflections on past and present, reveals the underlying tensions and unspoken emotions among the characters, including Is...