BBC R3 - Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

BBC R3 - Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?'

Directed by Cherry Cookson

Broadcast December 5, 2004

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



Play first performed on Broadway, October, 1962.



Two couples trapped in corrosive marriages descend into bitter

mutual examination in the aftermath of a drunken faculty party.



Selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, however, the

prize's advisory board overruled the drama prize jury, and did

not award the drama prize that year. They said that they thought

the play too profane. But given that the prize's board were also

Trustees Of Columbia University, it's more likely that they did

not like the picture of faculty life it presented.



Cast

Martha - Juliet Stephenson

George - Alex Jennings

Honey - Anastasia Hille

Nick - William Hope

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