Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afraid of Virginia Woolf' Mainly anyone who's eaten in Dunster House lately mid the unique set of props that have turned dinning into a perverse for form of mountain climbing. But anyone who's seen the show might well decide it would be worth eating a few meals standing up to see another play this good...
...this dramatic, success is as simple as presenting a good play well acted who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is the most provocative play by one of America's most iconoclastic playwrights. Edward Albee, whose latest play The Man Who Had Three Army begins previews on Broadway this week...
When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...
Here, he is largely concerned with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set that assemblage of brains and beauty whose wanton mores were matched only by their wicked tongues. Take for example passing conversations about Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the first wife whom T.S. Eliot left in 1933 after an unhappy marriage of 18 years. "None of the poet's associates appears to have known her well," Quennell observes, noting that Bertrand Russell "alleged once to have seduced her," then told a friend that she was, after all, "not so bad-light, a little vulgar, adventurous, full of life." Aldous Huxley...
Quennell, now 79 years old, is similarly uninhibited in describing Poet Victoria Sackville-West's celebrated affair with Virginia Woolf. The former's appearance, he writes, was "strange almost beyond the reach of adjectives . . . she resembled Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one." According to the author, Vita Sackville-West's husband, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia's spouse, Leonard, "observed the affair from the point of view of cautious guardians, determined that [Virginia's] unaccustomed feelings must not disturb [her] mental balance." Woolf's novel Orlando, "the direct result of her emotional adventures...