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Raquel Duffy, who plays Martha in Neptune Theatre<\/a>\u2019s Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/em>, is one of the best Canadian theatre actors of her generation. She spent nine years as a resident artist at Toronto\u2019s acclaimed Soulpepper Theatre<\/a>, and she continues to work there, having been in the Canadian Premiere of The Welkin<\/em> by Lucy Kirkwood there this past Fall. Duffy\u2019s impressive career has taken her from the Stratford Festival<\/a> to Mirvish<\/a>, and she has worked with most of Toronto\u2019s most prestigious theatre companies. Thankfully for us here in Halifax, though, this proud Dartmouthian returns to her hometown theatre of Neptune where she grew up seeing plays, worked at the theatre school, and where she built her professional career in shows ranging from Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em> to Flying On Her Own <\/em>and Gyps<\/em>y. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first professional theatre piece Duffy ever saw as a teenager was at Neptune Theatre:  Ann Mortifee\u2019s Welcome to the Planet, <\/em>which she characterizes as a one woman music piece. \u201cI didn\u2019t really know what was happening, but I was really struck by it,\u201d she remembers. Her father\u2019s company sponsored the show so she got free tickets to see everything in that season. She also remembers seeing The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon <\/em>by W.O. Mitchell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the same time she was attending what is now Woodlawn High School and her art teacher, Sheila McLean (mother of Zuppa<\/a>\u2019s Alex McLean), ran an after-school extracurricular drama program where she did \u201cthe most amazing pieces,\u201d and Duffy took part in these productions. The first play she was in was George Bernard Shaw\u2019s The Man of Destiny<\/em>, and they also did A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em>, Six Characters in Search of an Author<\/em>, and The Madwoman of Chaillot<\/em>. \u201cShe\u2019d always choose these gems that none of us could handle as far as skill,\u201d Duffy laughs, \u201cbut that\u2019s my foray into theatre.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Black, who plays Martha\u2019s husband George in this production, is also an incredibly esteemed and masterful actor, (and also a director and playwright and co-founder of Halifax\u2019s 2b Theatre<\/a>), who has deep theatrical roots in this city. When he was about ten he saw Sharon Pollock\u2019s play Blood Relations<\/em> at Neptune. The play tells the story of the infamous Lizzie Borden. \u201cThere was a blackout in that and I remember jumping out of my seat,\u201d Black says. He also saw Brent Carver and Walter Borden in a production of Man of La Mancha<\/em> at Neptune the following season. Duffy also remembers seeing Blood Relations<\/em> saying, \u201cI was also terrified when I saw that play. It was very scary and haunting, and just a great story\u2026. To get into Dalhousie [University\u2019s Theatre Program<\/a>] we had to do two monologues and then a piece, and I did Blood Relations<\/em> as a one-person,\u201d Duffy says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Anthony Black and Raquel Duffy both grew up doing theatre here, and have known each other a long time, with their time working at the theatre school even overlapping, this is their first time performing onstage together. It seems a bit incredible when you see how seamlessly they are maneuvering around playwright Edward Albee\u2019s intellectually and emotionally dense script together in a way that makes you really believe their characters have been married for twenty-three years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black characterizes the events of the play as \u201can after-party gone bananas.\u201d He continues, \u201cThis couple comes home having been at a faculty party. They\u2019re at a university, and Martha announces that she\u2019s invited guests\u2026 it\u2019s 2 o\u2019clock in the morning. George has a moment of ‘incredulity tinged with hysteria’ and the couple arrives, and it starts off a little crazy and then it gets a lot crazier\u2026. They\u2019ve been married for 23 years and things have not been healthy for a while, but they really start coming apart as soon as this happens.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duffy says of Martha that she asserts in the play to her husband, ‘I’m loud and I’m vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to, but I am not a monster. I’m not<\/em>,\u201d but says, “I think having grown up in a male-dominated world, and being very bright, and watching her father, who runs a college, (but there\u2019s no place for her in the college)\u2026 I think it speaks to women during this time period [the early 1960s] that were restless, and bored, and stuck.\u201d Black characterizes George saying, \u201che\u2019s a university prof, kind of a failure. His career growth got stunted and he\u2019s been a great disappointment to his wife, as much fun as they have over the last 23 years, and I\u2019m discovering there\u2019s a kind of a sense of the ridiculous [about him]. He tells a little story about a saloon in West Berlin where the ‘stools are five feet high’ and he\u2019s like, ‘it\u2019s just so wonderful and I won\u2019t give up things like that.\u2019 So he has an appetite for the riduclous. I\u2019ve been thinking about John Cleese in Fawlty Towers<\/em> a lot in terms of that kind of mania. He\u2019s like an American Basil Fawlty.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duffy says that at it\u2019s core she thinks the play is about the relationship between George and Martha and \u201cwhat I do believe is a love story,\u201d she says, \u201ca very messed up love story, but one nonetheless.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guests coming over to Martha and George\u2019s are Nick and Honey, played by Patrick Jeffrey and Kya Mosey. \u201cWe kind of get to see George and Martha through the eyes of the young couple,\u201d says Black. \u201cThey\u2019re important witnesses\u2026 for the audience. This George and Martha relationship- they\u2019re so cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs that it\u2019s like, \u2018what is happening?!\u2019 and we get to see the young couple experience that \u2018what is happening?\u2019 It grounds it in reality.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat a gift this play is for actors,\u201d says Duffy. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d agrees Black, \u201ceventually to get to act it, but also just to contend with it, to try to puzzle it together. The play is a slippery fish. You kind of think you\u2019ve got a hold on it, and then you\u2019re like, ‘no, but maybe this, maybe that’ because there is ambiguity in the story and in the back story, like what is true and what is illusion- what is fiction that they\u2019ve created, and the playwright doesn\u2019t actually answer all of that. He leaves breadcrumbs all over the place, lots of breadcrumbs, so it\u2019s fun to interrogate the play, and then also on some level it takes care of itself. Once you get it up to velocity a lot of questions get answered.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other thing about Edward Albee in particular that is both fascinating and somewhat irritating is he\u2019s very prescriptive with his stage directions,\u201d says Duffy, “but they\u2019re also very informative as well: when there is a pause, when there\u2019s not, how to deliver a line\u2026\u201d she cites one in particular: \u201cPause, then a moment of incredulous disbelief hinged with hysteria<\/em>.\u201d \u201cYou just read that and go, \u2018okay. Well how does one do that?\u2019 So, infuriating and yet fascinating too- someone that just has something in his mind and he wants it to be that way.\u201d Black says that the stage directions can be \u201cvery literary\u201d as well, saying, \u201cSometimes you have to look up the words of what the stage directions mean.\u201d He gives the example of \u2018in a stentorian<\/a> voice.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf <\/em>was first produced at Neptune Theatre in 1969 directed by Marigold Charlesworth<\/a>, who was the first woman to direct a play at the Shaw Festival<\/a> (1969) and the first woman to be invited to direct a play at the Stratford Festival (1977!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a formidably talented woman at the helm of this production: Ann-Marie Kerr. \u201cShe\u2019s amazing,\u201d says Duffy, \u201cShe\u2019s just so great to work with. Not only does she come in so prepared, she\u2019s just a true artist in the way of continuing to excavate the material and giving everyone in that room agency, which is rarer than one might think. Then, on top of that, she\u2026 can just feel the vibe of a room: what, when, where, why, how in a very, very graceful way, and beautiful way [that] I so respect and love.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf <\/em>by Edward Albee directed by Ann-Marie Kerr just started Previews at Neptune Theatre (1593 Argyle Street, Halifax) last night (February 27th, 2026)- it officially opens on March 6th and only runs until March 15th, so you are going to want to buy your tickets right now. You can do that online here<\/a>, by calling the Box Office at 902.429.7070, or visiting in person at 1593 Argyle Street. Tickets range in price from $33.00 to $68.00 depending on seating. Performances are Wednesday to Saturday at 7:30pm with 2:00pm matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. There is also a show on Tuesday March 3rd at 7:30pm- and that is Industry Night. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please be advised: This production includes coarse language, excessive drinking, smoking of herbal cigarettes, and instances of violence that may not be appropriate for all audiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry Night<\/strong><\/a>
Tuesday, March 3 – 7:30pm<\/strong>

Masked Performance
Sunday, March 8 – 2:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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