The Hours

Director Eline Arbo adapted Michael Cunningham's The Hours for the stage. The Hours is set on one day in the lives of three women, at three different times in the 20th century.
The Hours takes place on one day in the lives of three women, at three different moments in the 20th century. The day in 1923 when Virginia Woolf starts work on her masterpiece Mrs Dalloway. A mundane day of Laura Brown, an American housewife in 1949, when she escapes her seemingly perfect life in the suburbs in reading Woolf's novel. The late spring day in 1998, on which Clarissa Vaughan organises a party for her poet-friend Richard who is severely ill.

Both the book and the successful film adaptation by Stephen Daldry (with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep, among others) have become classics.

In Eline Arbo's adaptation, Cunningham's loving literary observation becomes visible on stage: she creates a world where the writer shares space with his characters. Meanwhile, the women struggle with the roles assigned to them, each seeking their own way of freedom.

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