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.
