Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have lost the capacity to feel rage, or at least to express it openly with any amount of integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? no longer shock as in the sixties but engage attention and accent the sardonic humor strung across two of the play's three grueling acts...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the only worthwhile homegrown native son's work to be produced in Boston in this Bicentennial season of foreign imports (fireworks by Equus of England and South Africa's Sizwe Banzi is Dead). It survived a stormy infancy, including a Pulitzer abortion at birth in 1963 (nominated, then rejected for being offensive), early charges of obscenity and immorality, vicious rumors (Was the play really written for four homosexuals?) and callous adolescent pranks (an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie version with more fangs than heart, 1966) to emerge as a classic of the American theater. The current...
...editor would send him out around the county to research a farm story. Like many Americans today, Morrow feels that rural living offers a healthy contrast to big-city life. Some time ago, in fact, he left New York for a six-month sabbatical in Maryland and rural western Virginia, where he began work on a book. Yet, also like many Americans, Morrow discovered that his allegiance to country life was fragile. Says he: "I kept hitting the road up to Washington and New York -partly as an exercise in typewriter avoidance; partly because, as I admitted to myself...
...legislators of Virginia, whose forebears once led the debates over American independence more than 200 years ago, today face another issue of great moment: whether to designate the state's official insect as the praying mantis, which the state's house of delegates has championed, or as the swallowtail butterfly, which the state senate has boosted. The question came to the fore last fall, when the fifth-and sixth-graders at the Arlington, Va., Long Branch Elementary School did some research on both the butterfly and the mantis and found the mantis, which has a reputation for ferocity...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directed by the author himself (Edward Albee), and starring Ben Gazzara and colleen Dewhurst. At the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., in Boston, through March 27. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., matinees Thursday and Saturday...