Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edward Albee's comeback drama: it signals his triumphant return to New ! York theater and to the acclaim that was his 30 years ago. But in this poignant, formally exciting memory play he also comes back to the issue of family, which energized Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee faces his demon -- his adoptive mother -- in a dazzling act of exorcism and forgiveness...
...service of so slender a vehicle as Vita & Virginia, now installed in off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre for an 18-week run. Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins bring to roaring life the two-character play created by Atkins from the letters Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf exchanged during their 18-year relationship. If their love affair (mostly of the heart and soul) was passionate, it was not very interesting -- at least not in this telling...
...when Sackville-West was 30 and Woolf 40. Woolf was already a respected author, though her masterworks were yet to come. Sackville-West was just launching what would be a prodigious career as a writer of poetry, biography, best-selling novels and gardening books. Both women were married. Vita was bisexual; Virginia...
...play, cunningly directed by actress Zoe Caldwell, spans the relationship, from cat-and-mouse flirtation to Woolf's suicide. The women speak the texts of their letters directly to each other, with laser intensity. Redgrave is a magnetic Vita, a free spirit in pearls and riding breeches (she was the model for Woolf's Orlando). Though not as well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison...
...expect his Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their...