On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:41:38 -0700 (PDT), calvin
wrote:
>> It's a funny picture with sophistication & vitality. It's a far more
>> believable vision of a homespun Walpurgisnacht than Albee's "Who's
>> Afraid of Virginia Woolf" or Williams's "Summer & Smoke."
>
>Please. 'Summer and Smoke', maybe, I don't remember it that well.
>But Albee's masterpiece? Not even on the same planet. I wonder
>if the original cast performance of 'Virginia Woolf' is still
>available.
It's riveting, certainly, in its best moments (which tend not to be
the screamfests but the quieter expressions of sarcasm), but
practically none of it is believable to me--least of all the
metaphysical mumbo-jumbo about the son. |