19:00, Tue 2nd – Sat 6th November 2004 at Corpus Playroom
Michaelmas Week 4

Violent, funny, smart -- and oiled with huge amounts of alcohol:
Edward Albee's classic portrait of marital war. George, a failed
academic, and his wife Martha have a young couple over for late
drinks, and quickly turn the unsuspecting guests into weapons in
their year-long marriage battle. Layer by layer, drink after drink,
each gives away the secrets of the other's failed life – neither of
them capable of stopping the process of mutual humiliation once it
has begun.

“Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is one of the strongest, most
psychologically violent, and yet subtlest pieces in modern theatre.
It shocks the audience not only by the intensity of its battles, but
also with the precision with which it presents them a mirror-image of
their own life. It is a highly entertaining, funny and violent
description of what it is for people to share each others’ lives, of
their intimacy, their contempt for each other, and their recognition
that they will nonetheless carry on together.