"Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf?"
"I am, George..I am."
The last lines from the play version by Edward Albee.
This story, in my review depicts the relationship between two has beens, could bes and almost have drunks. A husband and wife have a couple over for dinner while verbally/physically abusing eachother with playfull conduct, sharring of idiosyncratic personal information, and an ongoing rising of drunk demeanor. Meanwhile the guest couple is uncomfortable and mezmorized all at once.
I read that this film came out during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the audience came to the theater to escape the reality of the war/a nuclear threat to instead deal with multiple slurs and soliloquy of 'goddamn', 'sons-of-bitches', and 'hump the hostess'.
I read that Albee also had gotten the name for his play from something he read on a wall. Well here is a powerful letter written by Virginia Woolf that gives me the most chills, far more than any other of her works (her suicide letter):
"I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."
( "The Husband". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/review/Messud.t.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fFeatures%2fBooks%2fBook%20Reviews&oref=slogin)
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Cool. I don't think you wrote all that.
ReplyDeleteI did. Actually. Not the suicide note. I take that as a compliment.
ReplyDeleteI have read the letter once earlier and every time I read it,it gives me the chills.Its a piece of wonderful writing-even her a suicide note was a literary masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteI love Elizabeth Taylor.Who doesn't?
I know shes everything people try to be, but never make it. She had the talent and character..the looks were just a way to get her noticed as who she was. A beautiful and talented woman.
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