Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

Author: Edward Albee

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  • : June 2001
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Description

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.

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'Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want...so don't worry about me! George: Martha, I gave you the prize years ago...There isn't an abomination award going that you... Martha: I swear...if you existed I'd divorce you...'

Reviews

An intensity, a demoniac misery, a ferocious humour...no one can remain indifferent to its power, its resilience of ideas and its range of language * Sunday Times * Deliciously toxic, acidly funny * Washington Post * There is a great sense of danger in Edward's work, and you never quite know what's going to happen next... I think what is one of the most pronounced ingredients in his work is mischief -- Harold Pinter Scorching and exhilarating * New York Post * The verbal sparring and violence of Albee's early masterpiece remain astonishing, even frightening, yet bitterly, horribly funny...a classic play * The Times *

Author description

Edward Albee was born on 12th March 1928. He was adopted by Reed and Frances Albee at the age of eighteen days. Reed Albee was the heir to a vaudeville empire. In 1949 he moved to Greenwich Village and became involved in the artistic scene there. He has received three Pulitzer prizes for drama and in 2005 received a special Tony Lifetime Achievement Award.