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When word came that Albee was readying a big play for Broadway, the ticking of the deathwatch could at once be heard all the way to the village. But Albee has fooled the prophets of doom with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, his first full-evening play (I do not invoke the much-used term 'full-length, for any work of art that is as long as it ought to be is full-length), and done it with a vengeance: Virginia Woolf comprises three acts each about an hour long...
With a bow to the classical unities, the entire action of Virginia Woolf takes place in a faculty couple's living room and runs continuously from 2 a.m. until dawn on a Sunday. (Someone must already have dubbed the play Long Night's Journey Into Day.) And with a bow to intellectualism, Albee has subtitled the three acts "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism...
People rhapsodize about the foursome assembled to play the leading roles in the stage and film versions of Long Day's Journey; but there was a weak sister--or, I should say, brother--in the cast of the former, and a weak mother and brother in the latter. Virginia Woolf, however, currently boasts a quartet that is utterly flawless; and their performance (under Alan Schneider's inspiring career as the history professor who, once thought direction), individually and corporately, is bound to be talked about for decades...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged. Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...