Edward Albee
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.08 | 58398 Users | 1484 Reviews
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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."Present Books Toward Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
| 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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Ratings: 4.08 From 58398 Users | 1484 ReviewsComment On Of Books Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I think I'm still processing, but WOW! "We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs [...] and get down to bone...you know what you do then?[...] When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at.Procreation is the basic essence of human life. It is for this reason that all human go through all the crossings of life, in hope that when they are no longer in the world, somebody will be there to carry on their legacy forward. But, what happens to a couple who does not have a child? With what, the couple should hope, when the very essence of their being is refused to them. It is this theme which the play Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by the American writer Edward Albee deals with.The play
This play is so fucked. I don't know whether it's genius or madness. Probably both.
There are simply no words.
I have to invent a new word after this play: sadvicious. As in, sad and vicious, ineluctably intertwined, till death do them part. There's also the wicked humor of the play, for which I don't have a new word, a heartbreaking hilarity that keeps pace with the emotional maelstrom. This is an absolutely brilliant work.
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.
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.
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