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Sheepish `Virginia Woolf' doesn't dig deep enough.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20050218
Author:Byrne, Terry

Byline: Terry Byrne

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" At the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, through March 6.

Edward Albee's masterful play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" demands two actors to dig down, not just to the bone, but as one character says, "something inside the bone, the marrow, that's what you gotta get at."

Film star Kathleen Turner and New York favorite Bill Irwin, who are starring in the pre-Broadway production of the play now at the Wilbur, only scratch the surface. Without that fearless journey to the marrow, the play's explosive climax arrives not with ...

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