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by Edward Albee

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, neither audiences nor critics could 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 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."

Summary

“Twelve times a week,” answered 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. 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 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.”

From the publisher

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.

First line

Set in darkness.

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  • Title Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author
  • Author Edward Albee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, NEW YORK
  • Date 2006-08-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780451218599 / 0451218590
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Library of Congress subjects College teachers, New England
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

Media reviews

“Albee can…be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.”—New York Post



“An irreplaceable experience…a crucial event in the birth of contemporary American theater!”—The Village Voice


About the author

Edward Albee was born in 1928 and was adopted and raised in Westchester, New York. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the 1961 Tony Award for best play. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama, the 1980 Gold Medal in Drama, the 1996 Kennedy Center Honors, the 1996 National Medal of Arts, the 2000 Tony Award for best play for The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, and the 2005 Tony Special Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He died in 2016.

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