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EDWARD ALBEE knows who the most destructive people are: they are the bright ones, the ones who are intelligent enough to know how to probe at each other's lives, uncover weakness, and carefully irritate sensitive spots and tear open old wounds. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf. Albee's play about a perceptive but weak history professor and his dominant, contemptuous wife, pits two destructive people against each other, and against their two unprepared and very vulnerable guests. The actors of the Atma Theater Company's current production, now playing at the Charles Playhouse, make it a very interesting...
...Virginia Woolf is a study in gamesmanship, gamesmanship that comes more and more into the open as the evening gets later and the characters drunker. A post faculty-party get-together reaches the point where pretenses and defenses have completely fallen before a siege of garbled speech and very clearly pointed conversation. The games are played for more than prestige-points; the stakes rise until two players are at each other's throats and the two others are very nearly at the point of psychological defeat...
...Cathie Robinson as the middle-aged history professor George and his bitch wife Martha, and Al Ronzio and Lori Heineman as their young faculty-party acquaintances, Nick and Honey, work well under the requirements of this changing dimension. Much of the success of the Atma production of Virginia Woolf depends on the four actors' ability to alter their speech, motions, and emotions in the constantly changing context of their characters' drunkenness, and on the ability of their director, Sam Shamshack, to guide them in doing this...
...Henderson Forsythe's Vladimir and Paul B. Price's Estragon. As the slave Lucky, Anthony Holland mimes with the aching dignity of a Marceau, though his master, Pozzo (Edward Winter) is a shade too Blimpish. This is Alan Schneider's finest piece of directing since Virginia Woolf-sentient, taut, sharp as the image in a jeweler's glass...
Book publishers are not letting the confessional fervor bypass them, either. Books by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Betty Friedan are being reprinted and vigorously promoted. Even the Coop has set aside a special table for book on the Women's Movement, as if they were the hottest item since Psychedelic...