Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author
“Twelve times a week,†answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in <b>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</b>? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it 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. With the play’s razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw <b>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</b>? as “a brilliantly original work of art—an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.â€