Thanks to Edward Albee’s skill as a writer, Alan Schneider’s superb staging and directing and the brilliant performance by the cast, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” provides a thrilling and spectacular evening at the Billy Rose Theatre. You may struggle to fully understand Albee’s characters. You may feel that a pillar of the plot is too paltry to support the climax. You may feel that this play goes against social norms. You may also feel that this is just another play. Yet, in spite of all that, you are encouraged to visit Broadway, where Albee’s new play opened Saturday night.

Making his debut on Broadway, Albee brings the fervor and exasperation that helped him so brilliantly write “The Zoo Story” and “The American Dream.” He has created a play that runs over three hours long yet there is never a dull moment. Although Albee’s thoughts are uninviting and satirical, he is never imposing. With the unmatched, natural talent of Albee that has been seasoned through the years of writing plays for the theatre, Albee is able to fill the stage with constant excitement for the audience, who will be on the edge of their seats for almost the full duration of the play.

In “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Albee is focused on Martha and George, a couple …show more content…
Each character that Albee has created has seemingly failed to live up to the role expected of them and in their pursuit of this, they have been torn apart. While Martha may have once behaved like a woman, or at least how one was expected to behave, she no longer does, and this is unpleasant and makes George anxious. She drinks in the manner in which a man would, consuming whiskey and bourbon rather than the sweet-tasting drinks that a more traditional woman might favor. While these drinks would traditionally serve to make a woman more willing to serve men in a sexual manner, Martha rejects this