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...there was something of the perpetual schoolboy in the don during his 20s, and as Skidelsky observes, "No one in England gets far on brains alone." Keynes would not or could not be charming. As he bitterly appreciated, his lanky, uncoordinated body and equine face were not assets. Virginia Woolf placed him among the Bloomsbury men she classified as deficient in "physical splendour." "Rude" was one of the words his friends used to describe him, to which Skidelsky adds "arrogant" and "prickly...
OVERWHELMING THE LOWBUDGET staging of Junior Common Room vinyl, the Lowell House Drama Society renders an impressive performance of Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A cosy setting without lights, curtain or stage serves to bring the audience right into the living room with sparring couple George (Daniel Zelman) and Martha (Alicia Rubin), and their tortured guests Nick (Aaron Carlos) and Honey (Jane Loranger...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which has been called Long Night's Journey Into Day, carries us through the fun and games of boozy, castrating Martha, daughter of a small-college president, and her bitter husband George, who is "in the History Department instead of being the History Department." At 2:30 a.m., George and Martha have visitors, a miscast Aaron Carlos as up-and-coming young biologist, Nick, and his mousy wife Honey, brilliantly acted by Jane Loranger...
LISA FREINKEL DOES an excellent job of directing a simply organized play which encompasses complicated themes. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an extremely difficult one for a college cast to tackle, because, simply speaking, it is a middle-aged play. The actors with whom most viewers will associate the characters from Who's Afraid are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who seemed to live their parts in the movie version...
...could compare Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to an all-night Master's Sherry with the stops pulled out--fill your drinks and fasten your seat belts, academia is not all fun and games...