Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Ok, time to do a one line rant about a favorite book…. oops, it must be a Tisch student, because this is actually a play and not a book….  Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Two married couples meet at 2am in the morning when Martha, the daughter of the President of a New England college, invites a new faculty member and his wife over for late night cocktails. George, Martha’s husband, also a faculty member at the college, is surprised by the invite and the evening unravels into a series of barbs, scathing verbal attacks, and even physical abuse.  Alcohol intake goes wild as the night continues and Nick and wife Honey end up being drawn into this all-out assault on their personality weaknesses and lost work opportunities throughout the couple’s life.  There are no safe moments in this all-night event.  It is a game that Martha and George have become accustomed to playing on the weak folks who come to visit, yet who would know this? Not Nick and Honey!  Between the flirting and actual physical engagement that ensues between Martha and an unsuspecting Nick, we have the makings of a “what is real” and “what is play” throughout.  I bet that the show is better than reading of the play, but if you have a great imagination, I’m sure it can work.  For me, I would prefer to see it, and then read a really good novel, as all acting students should do.  Novels can help with character development and the telling of a great story.  Never enjoyed reading “Martha enters side right” in the middle of a story J.  You get how I feel about favorite books being plays, huh?  Enough said.  Hey, it’s now on Broadway starring Tracy Letts and Amy Morton.  Go see it!