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...perspective involves a penalty too. He who has gained that generous view inevitably moderates the books in his charge, domesticates their subversiveness, puts out the fire. As moderator he becomes a caricature, as teachers of English in fiction are always portrayed as caricatures. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf s professor? The practice of giving apples to teachers may have originated as an unconscious mockery of their lack of experience and danger, of their apparent refusal to risk the loss of paradise...
...this dramatic, success is as simple as presenting a good play well acted who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is the most provocative play by one of America's most iconoclastic playwrights. Edward Albee, whose latest play The Man Who Had Three Army begins previews on Broadway this week...
When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...
Rabb and Keyser shine throughout, giving us a George and Martha we can believe have been tormenting each other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place...
This first production of the Harvard Independent Theater, a new dramatic group without affiliation to an undergraduate House, is an auspicious start. They give us a tense and disturbing Virginia Woolf of which more than Dunster diners should be afraid...