Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
By Edward Albe
Directed by David Green
A naive young couple find themselves marooned in the vicious, humiliating and cynical battlefield of George and Martha's marriage. Albee's classic play was adapted for a memorable 1960s film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Performed May 2015
Cast
Yves Green
Peter Sowerbutts
Emma Martin
Mike Davison
‘Masterful, moving and memorable… Not to be missed’
— David Porter
Behind the Scenes
Review - David Porter
The versatile Open Space Theatre company are touring Albee’s 1960s’ classic study of marriage, aspirations and personal pain levels in a production by David Green that is masterful, moving and memorable.
Yves Green and Peter Sowerbutts are the well-matched, long married couple who niggle and goad each other with alcohol-fuelled vitriol. They sustain the rollercoaster of emotion superbly, ultimately revealing how their fantasies and games have fed them and how their sometimes mutual loathing is another side of love and need.
Mike Davison and Emma Martin are the young married couple, their increasingly reluctant guests, who watch in horror as their hosts wield personal emotion scalpels before themselves being gradually drawn into the dance that wedlock, offspring issues and thwarted ambition have become.
It is a challenging play forcing the audience to face realities of relationships and this cast raise the emotion stakes outstandingly well. Not to be missed.