Word: one-woman
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...Woolf's suicide. The women speak the texts of their letters directly to each other, with laser intensity. Redgrave is a magnetic Vita, a free spirit in pearls and riding breeches (she was the model for Woolf's Orlando). Though not as well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply...
...lack of continuity is some-what remedied by the actress who performs this one-woman play. Winsome Brown takes on the role, not only of the poet, but of his friends and enemies and his fictional characters as well...
...best, Bernhard is such a bitch it's funny; at her worst, she's such a bitch she's a bitch. She's at her best in her one-woman comedy/torch song film "Without You I'm Nothing," which I saw and enjoyed when it came out in the late '80s. When I saw her perform in San Francisco last New Year's Eve she was at her worst. Her show that night seemed poorly and hastily planned, and there were moments when she was roaming about the stage in her leather hot-pants, clearly at a loss for words...
Simpson liked to tell interviewers that "I'm a one-woman man." It fit the wholesome image, but it didn't bear checking too closely. Nicole and O.J. played the perfect, handsome couple; even after their divorce in 1992, they were often seen together with their two children or at parties. "Like all long-term relationships, we had a few ups and downs," Simpson admitted in the extraordinary letter his friend Robert Kardashian read after O.J. fled his house. "If we had a problem, it's because I loved her so much." But he also had a message...
Translation: the offense is a one-woman show...