num_pages: 242
description: "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."
language: English
title: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
titlecomplete: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
characters: Martha (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), George (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Honey (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf), Nick (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, The United States Of America, Drama, School, Literature, Classics, 20th Century
ratings_count: 68482
places: New England, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Play
publisher: Signet