โTwelve times a week,โ answered Uta Hagen when asked how often sheโd like to play Martha in Whoโs Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albeeโs masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the eveningโs end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the playโs razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Whoโs Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as โa brilliantly original work of artโan excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.โ
Review
โAlbee canโฆbe placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.โโNew York Post
โAn irreplaceable experienceโฆa crucial event in the birth of contemporary American theater!โโThe Village Voice
About the Author
Edward Albee , the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance , Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story , The Death of Bessie Smith , The Sandbox , The American Dream , Tiny Alice , All Over , Listening , The Lady from Dubuque , The Man Who Had Three Arms ,Finding the Sun , Fragments , Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.