Some PG/Martha Burns "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" current run stuff

[verushka70]

Some dSc6d-related "Virginia Woolf" stuff was posted on Facebook recently, such as this one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213712434/permalink/10161824717382435/
And this one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213712434/permalink/10161824683482435/
And this one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213712434/permalink/10161817388092435/

Here are non-Facebook links to these (in case the Facebook links don't work):
From Canadian Stage
An interview with the "power couple", on YouTube

One of the FB posts was by Canadian Stage, with a photo & links to buy tickets... There's no link for the photo, so I screen shot it:


Also, there's a review of WAoVW, and a CBC article about WAoVW and Wights, another play being staged currently, down the street from WAoVW.

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

Oof. Definitely a set of roles for powerful performers, and more power to 'em, but I hate this play (and it has not aged especially well, either).

Also, has PG played any sympathetic characters lately? :/

[ride_4ever]

Hmmm...how sympathetic do you consider the character of Mr. Lockhart, portrayed on stage recently by PG in "The Seafarer"?

[desireearmfeldt]

I'm not familiar with that one. Minus points to my theatre geek cred! :)

[ride_4ever]

PG in "The Seafarer" -- Alberta Theatre Projects

[verushka70]

Hmmm... that might not be a good example, lol, given the character PG plays (no spoilers - but if you look it up, you'll be spoiled).

I think I'd like to see The Seafarer (or at least read it)!

[ride_4ever]

Well, I did say "how sympathetic do you consider..." since I have not seen the whole play.

[ride_4ever]

<3 <3 <3

[verushka70]

I haven't seen it in eons; I saw the Liz Taylor/Richard Burton film & yeah, not a fun time... Once was enough for me, like with War of the Roses! But maybe that's because the latter just reminded me of my parents' horrible marriage & divorce (which was actually worse than the film's, involving police, orders of protection, surrender of weapons...) & my father ironically was a tenured college professor, sigh... Didn't stop him going bonkers (not that he wasn't already halfway there; not that my mom didn't have serious grounds for divorce).

As you can imagine, I am not a big fan of domestic dramas about terrible marriages.

I haven't seen most of PGs latest stuff, actually, except the mini series he did with Allen Hawco, & The Middle Man... so I can't speak whether or not he plays sympathetic characters much these days.

[ride_4ever]

The <3s were for Paul and Martha, not for the play itself, which yeah, as a fellow "child of divorce" I never gravitated to plays about bad marriages and divorces. (I did see the Taylor/Burton movie back in the 1970s when I was in film class in college.)

[verushka70]

Oh, actually I was replying to Des... Not your <3<3<3s :-) I figured they were for PG & MB.

[desireearmfeldt]

I haven't kept up with PG much either -- the most recent thing I can think of actually seeing him in is Alias Grace where he is a creepy villain. But I haven't seen him onstage, for example.

[grey853]

Thanks for all the links.

[verushka70]

You're welcome! 🙂