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The new dress by virginia woolf9/18/2023 Like “Long’s Day’s Journey,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is also seriously long. ![]() Smoking and drinking yourself to death has changed. Likewise, do people invite couples they’ve just met at a faculty party home for a nightcap at 2 a.m.? Society has changed. The show’s first line is “What a dump!” and the woman who says it spends the next several minutes wondering what Bette Davis movie it’s from. Some of the conversations in the play simply wouldn’t exist in today’s theater. The fanciest sound design moment is the playing of a 33 rpm vinyl LP. The biggest special effect in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is an umbrella. It hearkens back to theater that was punctuated by props like cigarettes and cocktails and basked in a love of language. ![]() ![]() In any case, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is dated, but not in a bad way. There was a local amateur production just last month at Madison Lyric Stage. Sightings of the play are relatively rare these days, though director James Bundy’s claim in his program notes that his is “the first professional staging of Albee’s masterpiece in Connecticut in more than 40 years” overlooks the perversely perky rendition at Hartford Stage a mere 30 years ago starring Marlo Thomas and Robert Foxworth.
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