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Previous Next. The play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is set on the campus of a small, New England university. It opens with the main characters, George and Martha coming home from a party at her father's house. The two of them clearly care deeply for each other, but events have turned their marriage into a nasty battle between two ...
Critics reviews. Oscar-winning tale of an unhappy middle-aged couple who invite the husband’s young new associate and his naive wife over to their house for a night they’ll never forget. Based on the 1962 play by Edward Albee.
Theatre /. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you." A classic 1962 play by Edward Albee, this character study follows George, a "boring" middle-aged history professor at a small New England college, and his caustic, abusive wife Martha.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is probably the most famous and widely studied American play associated with the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. Edward Albee’s play is about the dysfunctional and self-destructive marriage between a history professor and his wife, witnessed over the course of one night (or ...
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf resists the narrative pressure to present reality in a digestible form and instead exposes family life in a harsher light. At the same time, the Cold War was an important feature of American political life in the 1960’s, and the non-violent tensions that arise in Martha and George’s living room might be understood as a small-scale representation of the ...
Synopsis. Inspired by August Strindberg’s Dance of Death, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? chronicles a long night’s journey into dawn with George and Martha, arguably the most singularly vicious married couple in the history of the American theater. In the first act (“Fun and Games”), they careen home at two o’clock in the morning ...
Sold out even before it opened last year, this critically acclaimed Red Stitch production of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? comes to the Comedy Theatre stage for a strictly limited season from 29 June. Starring stage and screen legend, Logie and AFI Award winner Kat Stewart ( Underbelly, Offspring, Disgraced, Heisenberg) and directed by ...
