Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 rounded to 5 stars - I've been reading classics and plays this year, and this one was very powerful. Published in 1962, it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play (1963) and later became a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, as a middle aged couple with a volatile marriage. Martha is the daughter of the college president, her husband, George, a professor in the history department. Martha marries the younger George, with the idea that he will be groomed to take over for her father. As the years pass and that doesn't happen, the couple becomes increasingly bitter toward each other. The play takes place over the course of twelve hours and deals with illusions in life, and games that people play.
Albee visited SUNY Brockport (college) in 1981, and in my previous life, I was able to preserve the video of the interview. It is available here: Edward Albee Writers Forum video.

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