As a class, in our finals days in London, we went to see Orlando the play to experience a different perspective of Woolf's writing and a modern telling of her story of the nobleman Orlando. The story was a perfect way to start our final week, knowing everything we had learned during the trip about the Bloomsbury group and their way of life. Getting a first-hand perspective of The play lets us see what Virginia saw in herself, this sea of melancholy that ached for something more. Throughout the play, we follow the story of Orlando, who seeks more inside oneself, more in love, and more in the future. That is, wanting to learn more about oneself and wishing to pursue outside the walls one is bound to be what we learned the Bloomsbury Group understands so well. They are a group of friends who try not to be bounded by the place in which society has them. Overall, the play tells the story of another character, London, as a city. In Orlando's journey of self-discovery, we see London through time and visit different neighborhoods.

Most importantly, the effect that the city has had on its people. In CLR James's Letters from London, he writes about London, saying, "London is not England, but London is the peak, the centre, the  nucleus of a great branch of western civilization." Orlando's story of living in London and discovering who they represent, how much London has affected Western civilization, and how London has been the center of our culture. Not only through Orlando's interaction but the act of us watching a play in London that Virginia Woolf wrote, a great British author, shows that CLR James is right London is the center. Orlando was a way of telling us how significant the contributions of the Bloomsbury Group have been to civilization.