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Photo by Herwig Prammer/ReutersĪlbee told the Paris Review in 1966 that the play’s name came from soap graffiti on a saloon mirror:
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The 1966 movie adaptation of the play - starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, whose own rocky marriage regularly dominated headlines - cemented the play’s cultural legacy.Īctors Maria Bill as Martha and Guenter Franzmeier as George perform during a dress rehearsal of Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on stage of Vienna’s Volkstheater, on Oct. Two Pulitzer jurors resigned in protest of the decision. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1963, but the advisory board, who awards the prize, said it was not “uplifting” enough - a complaint “related to arguments over sexual permissiveness and rough dialogue,” according to the Pulitzer Prizes website. It was first staged in 1962 at the Billy Rose Theatre on Broadway, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill. At its core is a bitter, keening lament over man’s incapacity to arrange his environment or private life so as to inhibit his self-destructive compulsions.”
It is punctuated by comedy, and its laughter is shot through with savage irony.
If you don’t like what you see, why don’t you change?'”Īnd it worked: upon the play’s opening in 1962, The New York Times’ Howard Taubman said it was “possessed by raging demons. He told the NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown in 2005, “The purpose of serious theater has always been to hold a mirror up to people and say, ‘Hey, this is you. His approach to the play reflected his general approach to theater. Photo by Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage/Getty Images Matthew Kelly, left, and Louise Kempton, right, perform in Edward Albee’s multi award winning play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ at Trafalgar Studios on April 14, 2009, in London, England.
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Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy.”Īlbee said he wrote the play’s cutting dialogue to dig “so deep under the skin that it becomes practically intolerable.” In one monologue, Martha describes her husband George: “George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me – whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them.
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The conversation between the older and younger couple eventually devolves into “a series of horrifying, macabre psychological games, cruel challenges and spilled secrets,” The New York Times wrote. Told in three acts, the play follows the course of an evening between Martha and George and the young couple they’ve invited to visit their home: Nick, a biology professor, and Honey, his wife. The play captivated audiences with its acerbic portrayal of marital dysfunction between Martha and George, her history professor husband. If you don’t like what you see, why don’t you change?'” - Edward Albee
“The purpose of serious theater has always been to hold a mirror up to people and say, ‘Hey, this is you. But his most famous work, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was his biggest source of acclaim. Edward Albee, who interrogated contemporary life with plays that exposed the drama and psychology of human relationships, died Friday at 88, his personal assistant Jakob Holder confirmed.Īlbee’s long career earned him Pulitzer Prizes for A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women, along with two Tony Awards and a Tony Lifetime Achievement Award.
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