Word: uta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leaves welts on a playgoer's mind with its savage wit and marital horrors. In this brilliantly virulent struggle of man and wife, Arthur Hill plays cobra to Uta Hagen's mongoose...
...rise of curtain, George and hid wife Martha (played by Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) are just getting home from a faculty party at the president's home. He is in his middle forties, an associate professor of history; she, six years older, is the prexy's daughter. She has invited a new young couple over for a nightcap; and while waiting for the guests to arrive, there is some joking and joshing. But as the youngsters enter, they hear a wrought-up Martha hurl "Screw you!" across the room at her husband. Nick (George Grizzard), aged...
...Uta Hagen, a superb actress who has in the past not fared so well as she deserved, tears with relish into the juicy role of the earthy, vulgar, oversexed wife once driven to make incestuous advances to her son. It is a part of enormous advances to her son. It is a part of enormous range, and Miss Hagen is into every nuance of it. (Reportedly, Margaret Leighton was first choice for the part; fine as she is, she would not have been right...
Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged. Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...