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So, you know how in my English class we've been reading 'Who'd Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', and it turns out the play is all kinds of awesome. And part of the reading excercise and such is that you have to learn something about the author - this was going to be done by watching a movie about Edward Albee, but I got impatient and looked him up on my good friend Wiki and I thought, okay, that's kind of interesting; basically I learned he was a city boy, part of the Off-Broadway movement. And then yesterday we saw the movie about him and just, just *love*. How can you not adore a man who compares writing and directing a play to writing and directing a symphony. Gods, so awesome (he even mentioned semicolons, at which point four people turned and pointed at me. Erhm. Hee, am such a geek). And the clips from his plays! Okay, I didn't really feel anything for Zoostory, but 'Three Tall Women' and 'The Sandbox' both looked very interesting; his images of the disfuctionality that lurks under the surface and in the fictions we create are amazing.

Anyway, he kept mentioning Tenessee Williams, so I figured that since none of the Albee plays were available at the library, I'd get one of his and having a vague knowledge of his plays, got Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Oh My God. Awesome. So awesome. I read the entire thing duing school today, possibly missing a few details in social studies and physics, but soworthit. Absolutely wonderful, dysfunctional, ohsopainful play, which wonderful, wonderful hurting characters.

So, it's right back to Wiki to check him out, and Oh! Poor Tennessee. God. The poor, disturbed man. Wonderfully interesting. So now I have two new playwright crushes, and even more options for my 3rd year big essay. It's strange, I was so sure that I was going to write about Victorian litt, but now...I want this. I mean, I want to read more of these plays, because they're amazing. They're incredible portraits of people so deep in their own illusions and lies, it'll blow you away.

Well, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, there's a very strong homosexual aspect to the plot and on Tennessee's bio it says he detested the film version of the play for removing the gay aspects; this rang a bell for me so I went searching for this page I'd found about gay aspects in film, and whaddya know? I found it: Here is the overveiw. It's pretty cool, if slightly jarring'll written. Go check it out.

Related to that, I went amazon shopping again. I'm not proud.

Day after tomorrow, Sofie and Tess come for the weekend! Much fun will be had, I can promise you.

Hm, maybe I should clean.

Oh, to finish:

Fun coming out stories

You all know the myth of Persephone, right? Brighid has written an Oz take on that story and it's amazing. It's written in verse form, and even if you know next to nothing about the fandom, you should read this; it could stand as an original work. It's incredibly vivid, incredibly beautiful; it's stirring in a completely different way that one's used to. Go read it. Now.

Comments

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I've never actually seen The Zoostory or read it, all we saw were short moments for a reading of it. After all you've said, I may well have to read it!

In English we saw the movie before reading the play, and I loved it. It is, as you say, amazing, and the themes are much easier to see when it's acted that just when it's read. And Elizabeth Taylor was perfectly cast.

So, in your opinion, it's worth a look anyway? I've been kind of debating whether or not to see it; on one hand, I may not get a chance to see it as a play, on the other hand, I may just get annoyed at the changes.

Mmm, Elizabeth Taylor. Mmm, Paul Newman. That is tempting ;)