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...people against smallpox and yellow fever, treated 2,153 for dental problems and another 3,657 for a host of tropical diseases. Among them are okara, a skin disorder that comes from a mosquito bite and permanently disfigures face and body with white and red spots, and uta, a dread parasite that produces strawberry-size warts that, if they burst, can bleed the victim to death...
Mercedes McCambridge, offstage, is a candid person, kind, attractive, unsophisticated, and without visible defenses. But onstage or on-camera, she can somehow suggest the sort of skirted arachnid that bites through everything in its path. Two weeks ago, Mercy McCambridge took over from Uta Hagen, playing opposite Donald Davis, as the harridan in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? With this new, brown-eyed, waspish savage, the producers have probably added a year...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, by Edward Albee, provides a corrosive, explosive evening with a middle-aged campus couple who can only reach each other through a malignant duelogue of hate. Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen are shatteringly good...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Columbia; four records, $15) explodes with the same stinging ferocity in the living room that it has on stage. The poisoned rapiers are words, and they are wielded with lethal skill by the original cast: Arthur Hill, Uta Hagen, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon. Those who wish to achieve a malignantly Woolfish rapport may duplicate the time scheme of the play by tinkling the ice cubes and spinning the disks, starting about 2:30 a.m. Match the cast drink for drink and watch the 5:30 dawn come up like anathema...
Most important, she became a student of Uta Hagen's and later a member of the Actors Studio, soaking up the Method, which requires that each character should be built motive by motive from the inside. She became the Studio's virtual salutatorian. She could fidget, whine and hesitate like no other actress before her. Her pauses were unmatched. When she played the spinsterish heroine in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, she made an off-Broadway hit out of a Broadway flop, but she also kept the audience in their seats till after midnight. Director Jose Quintero...