New icon: yes or no?

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:03am

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:04am

Ah nuggets, what is with you and the 3 black chicks?

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:07am

i would say...but it would get edited for content...
-d.b.j-

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:13am

I like it better than the old one, so...YES!

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:14am

thanks! and...uhh....sorry to be a bizzznitch...but uh...you didnt like Albee?
-d.b.j-

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:16am

i LOVED the albee
but i loved the assassins one first

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:19am

thanks! and...uhh....sorry to be a bizzznitch...but uh...you didnt like Albee?

That was Albee? I just thought it was an old Republican, and it was a tongue-in-cheek kind of icon!

Actually, I know everyone thinks Albee is a genius, but I find his plays rather trying. I tried to love Virginia Woolf, I really tried, but I fell asleep instead (and it was a universally-acclaimed production).

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:30am

what production, might i ask? the Kennedy Center production?
and AGH. i LOOOVVVEEE Albee.
secret-soul, wow. i feel so special. thanks for remembering my
past icons. i think i might love you...
-d.b.j-

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:33am

No, the hugely acclaimed production at the Stratford Festival (Stratford, Ontario, Canada) a few summers ago. It starred Martha Harvey, a huge name in Canadian theatre. Maybe because I was still in my teens, and hadn't really gotten into the poetry of the straight play yet, but I had trouble keeping awake during the show. I couldn't believe it was 4 hours long!!!

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:34am

wowww. but yes, it is long...i haven't heard the 4-hour-mark thrown around though..i thought it was 3...hm.
-d.vb.j-

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:40am

I also saw a performance last month of Albee's short play, The American Dream. It reminded me of a shortened version of Virgina Woolf

Well, we're studying Virginia Woolf next year in one of my courses, so hopefully I'll develop a new appreciation for it. To understand the play, though, I'll be depending on this board...that means you, NuggetMonkey!

Updated On: 8/8/04 at 12:40 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:42am

Wizard, may i suggest you read the play when you have some time? even see the taylor-burton film. both of those might help you to appreciate it.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 12:44am

yes, the film is exquisite. and i will be glad to explain it, should you actually not understand it.
-d.b.j-

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 10:11pm

I've personally changed my icon becuase I felt the need for change...again...

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 1:20am

By the way, Nugget, did you see that Second Stage has dropped their production of Albee's "The Lady From Dubuque" starring the legendary Rosemary Harris that was scheduled for later this fall? No explanation was given. I was REALLY looking forward to it.

Albee is quite arguably the greatest American playwright of the last 50 years (especially if you use 1954-55 as the cut-off; O'Neill, Miller and Williams had written most of their masterpieces by that point). I've seen nearly all of his plays -- Zoo Story, American Dream, Bessie Smith, Box Mao Box, Counting the Ways, Virginia Woolf, Delicate Balance (the LCT Gutierrez production with Rosemary Harris, Grizzard and Stritch is one of the highlights of my theatregoing life), Seascape, Three Tall Women, The Goat, The Play About the Baby, Tiny Alice (OK, it makes no sense, but the Richard Thomas-Laila Robbins production a couple of years ago was rather compelling), All Over (also a puzzle, but the revival with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned at least featured their magnetic presences), The Lady From Dubuque (WHY did they cancel it?).......

Watch the Taylor-Burton film to get a handle on Virginia Woolf (gorgeous direction and performances). And get your hands on the Mel Gussow biography to get a deeper appreciation of the man and his work -- they've known each other for over 40 years and Albee cooperated in the writing of the book (Gussow makes quite a compelling case that Albee's wealthy, domineering, adoptive mother was the central figure in his life and his work -- shades of her can be seen in nearly every one of his major female characters).