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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?--by Edward Albee. Quincy Cage, 8 p.m. $5 General; $4 for students...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?--by Edward Albee. Quincy Cage, 8 p.m. $5 general; $4 for students...
Most readers will immediately recognize Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson's new title. A Voice of One's Own, as a conscious allusion to Virginia Woolf's original masterpiece. They will quite naturally assume the book to be a sympathetic look at women in literature. And to a certain extent, their assumption will be justified. But while Woolf's work was a subtle, erudite study of the conditions which allow women to write. A Voice of One's Own: Conversations With America's Writing Women is an giddy, superficial look at the lifestyles and publications of women writers...
...Virginia Woolf believed that human nature changed "in or about December, 1910." Actually, it must have been sometime between 1943, when Irving Penn became a photographer at Vogue, and 1983, when Annie Leibovitz moved her camera from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair. That would explain why the human race that appears in Penn's new book, a career summation called Passage (Knopf-Callaway; $100), looks so different from the one that we see in Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 (HarperCollins...
...final passage (Woolf aptly calls it her "peroration") is out of character with the rest of the play. The crisp sarcasm and dry humor deteriorate into slightly forced melodrama and moralizing that have very little Virginia Woolf in them...