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Directed by Mike Nichols. With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis. A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Previous Next. The play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is set on the campus of a small, New England university. It opens with the main characters, George and Martha coming home from a party at her father's house. The two of them clearly care deeply for each other, but events have turned their marriage into a nasty battle between two ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Released Jun 22, 1966 2h 9m Drama. 96% Tomatometer 45 Reviews. 90% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife ...
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About. Sold out even before it opened last year, this critically acclaimed Red Stitch production of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? comes to the Comedy Theatre stage for a strictly limited season from 29 June. Starring stage and screen legend, Logie and AFI Award winner Kat Stewart (Underbelly, Offspring, Disgraced, Heisenberg) and directed ...
With the Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962, Albee went from promising young playwright to great American dramatist, and was perceived by many as having joined the ranks of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? didn't go off without controversy, though. Some audience ...
George (Richard Burton) is an associate professor of history who has turned to alcohol to deal with his vituperative, vicious wife Martha (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), whose appetite for administering abuse knows no bounds. Invited to the couple's home for late-night drinks are new professor Nick (George Segal), and his naive wife Honey, where over ...
