Theater: 59E59 Theaters / 59 East 59th St., New York, NY, 10022
Synopsis:
Art, sex, conquest and love collide on a fall day in 1923 as the dashing mountaineer George Mallory, who coined the phrase "because it's there," pays a surprise visit to Charleston, the summer home of two of Britain's most important artists, the Bloomsbury Group painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
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March 8, 2012: As historical source material goes, can there be a sharper double-edged sword than the Bloomsbury group, that spectacular, fractious tribe of British writers, thinkers and artists who came together in London in the early 20th century?
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March 7, 2012: The artists, writers and philosophers of the Bloomsbury group were a randy lot, especially for Victorian England. It’s a side of them the play “Eternal Equinox” is bent on capturing, depicting as it does the romantic triangle between painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and George Mallory, the man who famously said he climbed a mountain “because it’s there.”
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