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Elizabeth Ashley is a little afraid of 'Virginia Woolf'.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19961230
Author:Dolen, Christine

The voice is redolent of whiskey, cigarettes and the South. The personality is strictly large-scale, the energy just shy of manic. The face is memorably beautiful, the intellect fierce.

And so when you hear that Elizabeth Ashley is about to play the combative, complex Martha in Edward Albee's ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Coconut Grove, Fla., you think: Of course.

Though she's a stage veteran with both triumphs and battle scars, this is the first time Ashley has merged with an Albee character. She has done lots of Tennessee ...

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