Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf [Anglais] [Broché]

Albee can...be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Play in three acts by Edward Albee, published and produced in 1962. The action takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome. When Nick, a young biology professor, and his strange wife Honey stop by for a nightcap, they are enlisted as fellow fighters, and the battle begins. A long night of malicious games, insults, humiliations, betrayals, painful confrontations, and savage witticisms ensues. The secrets of both couples are laid bare and illusions are viciously exposed. When, in a climactic moment, George decides to "kill" the son they have invented to compensate for their childlessness, George and Martha finally face the truth and, in a quiet ending to a noisy play, stand together against the world, sharing their sorrow. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

"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." --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .

Edward Albee has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama, 1980's Gold Medal in Drama, 1996's Kennedy Center Honors, 1996's National Medal of Arts, the 1961 and 2000 Tony Awards for best play, and 2005's Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .