Items related to Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
NOTE: This ISBN has been Revised by the Author for The 2005 Broadway Revival.
“Twelve times a week,” answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, 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.”
“Twelve times a week,” answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, 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.”
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.
Review:
“Albee can...be placed high among the important dramatists of the contemporary world theatre.”—New York Post“An irreplaceable experience...A crucial event in the birth of contemporary American theatre.”—Village Voice
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 067178112X
- ISBN 13 9780671781125
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages242
- Rating
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1971)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # GRP86904686
Buy Used
US$ 6.92
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1964)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Mass Market Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.32. Seller Inventory # G067178112XI5N00
Buy Used
US$ 7.07
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1964)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Mass Market Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.32. Seller Inventory # G067178112XI5N00
Buy Used
US$ 7.07
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1964)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Mass Market Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.32. Seller Inventory # G067178112XI5N00
Buy Used
US$ 7.07
Convert currency
Stock Image
Whos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: VeryGood. Pocket paperback; no writing or tears; lightly tanned pages; s; hv. Seller Inventory # 53KSIU000AMO
Buy Used
US$ 3.35
Convert currency
Stock Image
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Published by
Pocket
(1964)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Corner bumped. FFEP loosened. Sprayed yellow page edges. Edge and shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 040471
Buy Used
US$ 3.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1966)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Soft cover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is the script of the play that was made into the movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Mass market paperback. Publisher book number 75149, cover price $0.75. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show expected shelf wear; upper front corner is creased. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Corners not bumped. An excellent reading copy. Seller Inventory # M0201
Buy Used
US$ 13.50
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Published by
Pocket Books
(1971)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Mass-market paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Mass-market paperback. Condition: Fine. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. PB 167. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0048829
Buy Used
US$ 8.85
Convert currency
Stock Image
Virginia Woolf
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Acceptable. Bargain book!. Seller Inventory # Z509014
Buy Used
US$ 3.99
Convert currency
Stock Image
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Play
Published by
Pocket Books, New York
(1972)
ISBN 10: 067178112X
ISBN 13: 9780671781125
Used
Mass market paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. Eighteenth Printing. [10], 242, [4] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. His middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing, marriage, and sexual relationships. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Later in his life, Albee continued to experiment in works such as The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002). Albee's most iconic play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 13, 1962, and closed on May 16, 1964, after five previews and 664 performances. The controversial play won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 and was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize by the award's drama jury, but was overruled by the advisory committee, which elected not to give a drama award at all. The two members of the jury, John Mason Brown and John Gassner, subsequently resigned in protest. An Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the controversial play was released in 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "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." Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. The play is in three acts, normally taking a little less than three hours to perform, with two 10-minute intermissions. The title is a pun on the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (1933), substituting the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf. Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play. It is frequently revived on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in 1966, written by Ernest Lehman, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis. Seller Inventory # 85393
Buy Used
US$ 15.00
Convert currency