Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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When “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway in October 1962, a reviewer wrote that at its core, Edward Albee’s drama was “a bitter, keening lament over man’s incapacity to arrange his environment or private life as to inhibit his self-destructive compulsions.”
Imagine if he’d agreed to face off against Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
From Los Angeles Times
Cumberbatch says he really wants to do a play like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf or Much Ado About Nothing, but Colman is quick to shut it down saying: "I really can't hold a whole play in my head any more."
From BBC
He went on to be regarded by many as the finest actor ever to emerge from Wales, starring in films including Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
From BBC
Tonally, however, Soderbergh has us thinking of Edward Albee, the playwright of the riveting dinner-party double date, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
From Los Angeles Times
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