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- Two-time Tony Award® and three-time Emmy® Award winner Laurie Metcalf and stage-and-screen veteran Rupert Everett star on Broadway in Edward Albee’s seminal and perpetually astonishing drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George.
- Edward Albee
- 1962
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, play in three acts by Edward Albee, published, produced, and debuted on Broadway in 1962. The action takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Edward Albee’s original title for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf was ‘Exorcism’, which he ended up using as the title for the final act of the play. The eventual title came from a bar which Albee frequented, where patrons would leave graffiti, written in soap, on a large mirror.
A dark comedy, Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. Type: Full Length Play. Acts: Three.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was first presented by Theater 1963 (Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder), A.B.W. Productions, Inc., and Pisces Productions, Inc. on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre in New York City on Octiober 13, 1962. It was directed by Alan Schneider.
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.
Aug 3, 2020 · Albee initially called the play “The Exorcism” (the title later assigned to act 3) but arrived at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? after discovering the phrase as graffiti in a Greenwich Village bar. Albee has explicated his title with its reference to a writer centrally concerned with the nature of reality, to mean “Who is afraid of ...
