Theatre Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Monday, 3 July 2006 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daJust a capsule-review for now. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melted_snowball and I saw this on Thursday night.
The production: awesome. Every one of the four actors was believable in their role, and they seemed to have appropriate chemistry (or anti-chemistry, as the case often was). Every bit of the production seemed spot-on to me.
The show itself: painful, in content and presentation. This might be the most sadistic play I've seen. Over three hours plus.. oof. I found myself wondering what was the force that kept George and Martha together? Some co-dependent sort of love? Inertia? Inertia seemed to be the main force that kept the two guests from leaving; inertia, playing with greed (Nick, greed for influence at the college and for Martha; Honey, greed for the brandy).
Since the show is one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, I will think about renting the movie version, though I am not certain I need to see it again. I'll say it this way: if I don't ever see this show ever again, I feel totally comfortable letting this production of it, be the one I've seen, it was that well done.
melted_snowball and I saw this on Thursday night.The production: awesome. Every one of the four actors was believable in their role, and they seemed to have appropriate chemistry (or anti-chemistry, as the case often was). Every bit of the production seemed spot-on to me.
The show itself: painful, in content and presentation. This might be the most sadistic play I've seen. Over three hours plus.. oof. I found myself wondering what was the force that kept George and Martha together? Some co-dependent sort of love? Inertia? Inertia seemed to be the main force that kept the two guests from leaving; inertia, playing with greed (Nick, greed for influence at the college and for Martha; Honey, greed for the brandy).
Since the show is one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, I will think about renting the movie version, though I am not certain I need to see it again. I'll say it this way: if I don't ever see this show ever again, I feel totally comfortable letting this production of it, be the one I've seen, it was that well done.
