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When Strindberg in all his intensity works, he devastates an audience. When he does not, he devastates the actors. Dewhurst and Gazzara auditioned for The Dance of Death by playing together in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but Edward Albee is to August Strindberg what bitter lemon is to vitriol. Uncharacteristically subdued, the stars struggle with the play as if remembering the lines and holding on to sanity required all their energy. One of the curses of guest-star repertory is insufficient rehearsal time for difficult plays...
Ultimately, what these events illustrate is that the sports boom has peaked. Bob Woolf, who represents about 300 athletes, recently spoke at the Harvard Law School Forum. A hockey player worth $125,000 a year in the open market last season, he said, is now worth about...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf. At Emerson Hall 105, Friday and Saturday...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf. If Edward Albee's script weren't so overdetermined and relentless, and thus so inconceivable, this film might really be scary. Elizabeth Taylor plays the bitchy, voluble and (if you will) castrating Martha, the college president's daughter who tortures her History professor husband with his lack of talent, ambition and ability to have snagged tuenure without the help his marriage to her gave him. Richard Burton, as George, is even more frightening in his way: dowdy, soft-spoken, but with a corrosive edge of bitterness, hopelessness and perversity that shows just enought to make...
Sumptuous sounded more accurate to me. Powerful. "Cleopatra," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Reflections in a Golden Eye" where she takes a whip to Brando's face. There were times when she'd made us squirm, uncomfortable with the guts of her performance, shown us the violent capacity of human emotions...