Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Red Stitch: The Actor’s Theatre
St Kilda East
Red Stitch: The Actor’s Theatre,
Rear 2 Chapel Street
St Kilda East, Victoria 3182 Australia
St Kilda East, Victoria 3182 Australia
Date
15 Nov –
17 Dec
About the Show
Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
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Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
Date
November 15, 2023
December 17, 2023
About the Show
Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
Read More
Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
Date
November 15, 2023
December 17, 2023
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