Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Revised by the Author
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 1, 2006
A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. “Twelve times a week,” answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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- Who it’s for
- A dark comedy where razor-sharp dialogue turns marital sparring into an excoriating theatrical experience.
- Themes
- Marital conflict, Social pretense, Revelation
- Genres
- American Plays
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A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. “Twelve times a week,” answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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.
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By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With its razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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.”
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A dark comedy where razor-sharp dialogue turns marital sparring into an excoriating theatrical experience.
Come here for
- Razor-sharp dialogue and dark humor with a dangerous edge
- The thrill of watching social pretense come apart
Expect
- Marital sparring that keeps its humor close to the nerve
- A theatrical experience charged with shocks of recognition
Where it sits
| American Plays | 97% |
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Publisher categories
- American Plays
- Drama Criticism
- Playwriting
- Authors
- Edward Albee
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- August 1, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Marital conflict · Social pretense · Revelation
- Reading lane
- American Plays