"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

[likethebeer]

My friend, Terry T, on the recording of that play, and an inclusion of 5 minutes of the Broadway cast recording:
http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2014/03/printing_the_legend.html

I'm tagging this under "Movies" but of course it's not that. I suppose I could put a tag for "entertainment". Then I suppose I should go through all the "movies" and re-tag them. Ah well. Later: Done.

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

That's funny you mention that play, as I was just talking to a co-worker 5 minutes ago about an American Dad episode where two characters pull Albee mind games on some new friends.

Get the guest

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

If I figured out my hosts were doing that to me I might run around & ask about "the kid" immediately. And drink grasshoppers and puke all over the bathroom.

Man - Terry hooked into something.

Tag: Performing Arts

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Tags: Audio Entertainment, Performing arts, Drama, etc.

That's why I don't use tags. I can't make up my mind how to file sh!t.

I should check that out. In the meantime, I'm looking for recordings of August Wilson plays from the "Green Space(?)" I'll let you know if I find them. I'm sure money is an issue.

Re: Tag: Performing Arts

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Even though I'm so weak and "spongey" with facts & decision-making, I am dedicated to it. In case I want to find something and I'll be really pissed when I can't find it.

Wow - I had not heard of August Wilson before. Might be interesting.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I heard of him in the Twin Cities where he had several plays produced while he was still alive. He was only 60 when he passed, but his plays span the 20th Century African-American experience.

Childhood
Wilson's maternal grandmother walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children, to Sudeten-German immigrant baker/pastry cook, Frederick August Kittel, Sr. and Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman, from North Carolina.[1] Wilson's mother raised the children alone until he was five in a two-room apartment above a grocery store at 1727 Bedford Avenue; his father was mostly absent from his childhood. Wilson would go on to write under his mother's surname. The economically depressed neighborhood in which he was raised was inhabited predominantly by black Americans, and Jewish and Italian immigrants. Wilson's mother divorced and married David Bedford in the 1950s and the family moved from the Hill District to the then predominantly white working-class neighborhood of Hazelwood, where they encountered racial hostility; bricks were thrown through a window at their new home. They were soon forced out of their house and on to their next home.[2]

Wilson was the only African-American student at the Central Catholic High School in 1959 where he was soon driven away by threats and abuse.[1]He then attended Connelley Vocational High School, but found the curriculum unchallenging. He dropped out of Gladstone High School in the 10th grade in 1960 after his teacher accused him of plagiarizing a 20-page paper he wrote on Napoleon I of France. Wilson hid his decision from his mother because he did not want to disappoint her. At the age of 16, he began working menial jobs and that allowed him to meet a wide variety of people, some of whom he later based his characters on, such as Sam in The Janitor (1985).

Wilson made such extensive use of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to educate himself that it later awarded him a degree, the only such one it has bestowed. Wilson, who had learned to read at age four, began reading black writers at the library at age 12 and spent the remainder of his teen years educating himself by reading Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, and others.[2]

Thanks to WikiPedia.