Word: walpurgisnacht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first as a cadaver, the Devil appears later as a gypsy fortuneteller, then Don Juan, then a soldier of fortune. Next, Corsaro threw out the lurid, last-act Walpurgisnacht scene, the ballet sequence that always draws laughs everywhere but in Paris. Finally, poor Marguerite dies on the gallows instead of escaping to heaven...
McCann is edgy and truculent; Goldberg is expansive and sentimental as he reminisces about his mother's gefilte fish. In Act II, they pistol-whip Stanley with words-mad, flailing non sequiturs-charging that he "betrayed the organization." A birthday party for Stanley turns into a Walpurgisnacht, as the lights go out and Stanley goes berserk trying to throttle Meg and rape a nubile bundle of fluff called Lulu (Alexandra Berlin). Act III finds Stanley looking like a waxed zombie, Goldberg and McCann promising that "Monty" will take care of Stanley, and escorting him to something that seems suspiciously...
...Golden Prime is a sort of cafe society Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each progresses at length through the three stages that Albee calls "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "Exorcism," and each maintains that adjustment to an unhappy situation can come only through love. Here the resemblance ends. Virginia Woolf remains unified and gripping throughout despite its humor, while In the Golden Prime is episodic and unconvincing, with long irrelevancies and overworked profanities...
...Woolf takes place in a faculty couple's living room and runs continuously from 2 a.m. until dawn on a Sunday. (Someone must already have dubbed the play Long Night's Journey Into Day.) And with a bow to intellectualism, Albee has subtitled the three acts "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism...