‘I had flushed with anger’: A Room of One’s Own, back by popular demand The theatre adaptation of Woolf's book has renewed relevance amid the government's gender crisis. May 12, 2021 Actress Anita Hegh has been dwelling on Carissa Licciardello and Tom Wright’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own since March 2020. It shows. Rehearsals started at Belvoir Theatre in April 2020 for a March debut, before the world was plunged into lockdown in what was a particularly tough year for theatre companies. Actors, who are most often contractors, were left without income, and unable to apply for the JobKeeper subsidy. Where the government did provide performing arts subsidies, there was no contingent requirement that those funds be used to keep working actors employed.