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• Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
  Article: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
  EDGE Boston - Oct 10, 2009
  By Kay Bourne

  Diego Arciniegas’s clarity of direction unleashes high voltage performances from a cast of four led by Tina Packer, whose Martha (to borrow from...
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  Diego Arciniegas’s clarity of direction unleashes high voltage performances from a cast of four led by Tina Packer, whose Martha (to borrow from Dylan) makes love - and havoc - like a woman but breaks like a little girl. Fortuitously, Arciniegas also assuredly reins in these same actors enough so they stay on track to deliver Edward Albee’s play with all its fierce intelligence and jabbing wit.
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• Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
  Article: This 'Woolf' has bite
  The Patriot Ledger - Oct 09, 2009
  By Iris Fanger

  No less lethal now than at its earlier incarnations, including the Broadway premiere in 1962, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, and the 1966 film...
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  No less lethal now than at its earlier incarnations, including the Broadway premiere in 1962, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, and the 1966 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as sparring partners, the Publick Theatre production at the Boston Center for the Arts is a reminder that the play is now a classic because of its ability to plow deeply beneath a viewer’s skin.
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• Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
  "Kevin Smith fan?"
  Review posted by: DethWench from Boston, Oct 23, 2009
  

  I am a big Kevin Smith fan, and therefore, I really loved this production. Martha's soliloquies and George's rants, especially with that machine-fire dialogue exchange, was so emotionally raw at... Expand

  I am a big Kevin Smith fan, and therefore, I really loved this production. Martha's soliloquies and George's rants, especially with that machine-fire dialogue exchange, was so emotionally raw at times, one forgets the meaning of the actual words coming out. That being said, Kevin Smith only has to fill 1.5 hours in his movies, and it is a challenge to keep this story from dragging during non-chaotic scenes. Neither here nor there, one gets sucked into the story, cringing unexpectedly quite regularly. I overall enjoyed the experience of being sucked into such a dysfunctional world and spit out 3 hours later. I was left remembering that a dinner-party-turned-drunk-night-that-never-ends *is* a classic setting, and wondering how George and Martha get along on a day to day basis with all this drama in their lives. Collapse

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  Review posted by: Mary Curtin from Charlestown, MA USA, Oct 20, 2009
  

  In this production, you do indeed get George and Martha at their feisty best, but you also become completely absorbed in their fragile moments, which are superbly revealed by this terrific cast. In... Expand

  In this production, you do indeed get George and Martha at their feisty best, but you also become completely absorbed in their fragile moments, which are superbly revealed by this terrific cast. In lesser hands, those moments could drag -- but not in this show! In the Publick's version, there is never a dull moment. Bravo! Collapse

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