Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves
introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved
friend, Percival. The characters are almost imperceptibly revealed through
the kaleidoscopic accumulation of their reflections on themselves and each
other. Regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves was
partially written in order to exorcise her private ghosts as the central,
yet absent, character of Percival represents her brother Thoby, who died in
1906. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental and thrilling.