Plum bursts through the door a coiffed and voluptuous hen, pecking nonstop at her relentlessly heckled husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here Steven Barkhimer as history professor George and Paula Plum as his alcoholic wife Martha –daughter of the university president– give it their ruthless best. ![]() More than a half century later and 3 months after the death of its playwright, the cold-war overtones of George and Martha battling it out in “New Carthage” remain as relevant as ever in this “post truth” era of divisiveness and fake news, where illusion and truth have as slippery and combative a relationship as ever. Stars: Sandy Dennis suffered a miscarriage during filming, and it may have contributed to the break up of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s marriage. Liz Taylor & Richard Burton “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966 film)
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