Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trapped bystanders and finish as guilty fellow victims. In the long and lacerating annals of family fights on stage, there has been nothing quite like Virginia Woolf's mortal battle of the sexes for sheer nonstop grim-gay savagery. The human heart is not on view, but the playgoer will know that he has seen human entrails...
After that, the play is sapped by incredibility. Albee asks the playgoer to believe that the warring couple actually kept up a pretense about a nonexistent son for 21 years-having previously suggested various possible reasons for this neurotic myth, such as that Martha's father didn't like her. Coming after two acts of cascading turbulence, this plot resolution is woefully inadequate and incongruous, rather like tracing the source of Niagara to a water pistol. There are other weaknesses. The play is needlessly long (3¼ hours), repetitious, slavishly, sometimes superficially Freudian, and given to trite thoughts...
Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Arthur Kopit. Mom never had it so bad. Amid the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as a hilariously voracious sexling. Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for patched minds where teh playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs,scenes, and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...