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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee. Presented by the Cambridge Theatre Company, this dazzling comedy presents one of the most memorable of married couples in a searing night of dangerous fun and games with their two guests, Nick and Honey, who innocently become their foil. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. 29 October Friday...
...graduated with honors from high school and went off to Howard University in Washington, at that time an all-black institution. Next came Cornell, where she did graduate studies in English and, after writing a thesis on the theme of suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, earned an M.A. degree in 1955. Her degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when she later began to write fiction. Incantatory Faulknerian cadences crop up in all her novels, including...
McNally was then living with Edward Albee, who reputedly based the description of the imaginary son in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on him. In 1965, two years after the couple had broken up, McNally saw his own first full-length play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, go kerflop on Broadway. He still smarts from the experience. On opening night, just before curtain time, he spotted playwright Jean Kerr and her critic husband Walter. "She said, 'Well, let's go see what his boyfriend has written.' The critics weren't reviewing a play...
Based on a novel by Virginia Woolf, "Orlando" has all the pieces needed for a movie destined to be an award winner, or at least a cult classic. There is cinematography that comes close to a quality novel's description, acting with extreme depth and dry, campy humor meant to shock as well as entertain...
...those of a masculine woman they are simply those of a person trying to be who she is, a being who in many ways transcends gender roles and sex itself. In this sense the modern day ending is an appropriate one, despite the obvious difference from what Woolf knew as modern. Potter implies that our era is the most free of all those lived in by Orlando but leaves us with no proof but that gained from the exquisite imagery and inherent Zaniness of the movie...