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BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...wondered as a boy, "do we always know someone everywhere?" The answer was simple. Rupert Brooke grew up among Top People in an era when no other kind counted in England. As a kid he built sandcastles with Virginia Woolf. Other adoring contemporaries included Darwin's granddaughters, Keyneses, Stracheys and most of the other young Britons who were to leave their mark on the times. As the late Christopher Hassall makes clear in this massive, kindly biography, Rupert Brooke had everything: chirm, grace, Grecian good looks, precocious brilliance. That was his tragedy. For Rupert, everything from schoolboy success...
Schechner has also stirred up interest with his caustically outspoken editorial comments. He delights in dissenting. While critics almost unanimously praised Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Schechner called it "a classic of bad taste." He attacks plays that promote what he calls "morbidity and sexual perversity which are only there to titillate an impotent and homosexual theater and audience." He denounces Broadway as "commodity theater," and crusades for a quickening of local professional and university theaters, where, he believes, the true future of American theater lies. When just about everyone else was doing stories...
When Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague recently, its title was changed to Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka? The switch was significant. Not only did it mark Czech officialdom's resurrection of Kafka from the Communist limbo of "degenerate individualism," but it also reflected the intellectual ferment behind the Iron Curtain that made Kafka's redemption possible...
...onstage or on-camera, she can somehow suggest the sort of skirted arachnid that bites through everything in its path. Two weeks ago, Mercy McCambridge took over from Uta Hagen, playing opposite Donald Davis, as the harridan in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? With this new, brown-eyed, waspish savage, the producers have probably added a year...