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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Author	:	Edward Albee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2006 by NAL (first published January 1st 1962)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Fiction. Theatre

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"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."

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Original Title:	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ISBN:	0451218590 (ISBN13: 9780451218599)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Martha (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Nick (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Honey (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play (1963)

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This falls under that category labelled AWKWARD SOCIAL GATHERING.You ever been to a party where the host and hostess get totally hammered and spend the rest of the evening humiliating each other? If you haven't, I don't believe you, number one, and number two, you're a lucky bastard. It's awkward and uncomfortable and lemme tell you, it's not much better if you're the drunken host and hostess either. No one's having a good time, no matter how much liquor is consumed, keep that in mind.The

A three-act play about the illusions that sustain two couples, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf follows the aging George and Martha as they entertain and terrorize the recently married Nick and Honey one night after the end of a university faculty party. The evening starts off on an unpleasant note in the former couple's home, and the situation only further deteriorates as the increasingly intoxicated small group stumbles toward dawn. Albee's acerbic wit is at its strongest here, and in contrast

4.5* This play about a dysfunctional couple reads almost as well as it plays on stage. I have seen the film version with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (more than once) & I kept hearing their voices while I was reading.

I don't often read plays but I absolutely loved Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for its cinematic, almost comedic style, it's colourful characters and its timelessness. Definitely a classic that everyone should read.

This is, in my opinion, the best play ever written in the 20th century. There's also a great story about how this was the first drama rejected by the Pulitzer Prize committee for "obscenity" (you may have a hard time finding the obscenity in it, though, since it's from 1962). It's basically about two married couples who hang out in the wee hours of the morning following a party on a college campus in New England, but the interesting part is the way one couple tries to screw with the other's

Tandem read with the Mrs. I appreciated the idea that there once was a time where would could believe in the possibility of Beethoven on the jukebox.

This play makes me squirm with discomfort every time I read it. My mother raised me to be so conscious of manners that I'm practically Southern. Even though George and Martha are just horrible, I can't help cackle at some of the insults they sling. When Martha says that George doesn't have "the stuff," my English Major heart is made happy. It's a totally perfect slam.And who could not admire Albee's daring in using the term "monkey nipples"?