Overview

Academic couple George and Martha have invited their new colleagues, Nick and Honey, over for a friendly drink. As the alcohol flows, the night gets darker and so does the conversation.
Edward Albee’s masterwork erupted onto the Broadway stage in 1962, stormed the silver screen in 1966 with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and has been electrifying audiences ever since. Acclaimed director and actor Margaret Harvey (Black Medea, Heart is a Wasteland, RAN: Remote Area Nurse) reinterrogates this classic exploration of reality, illusion and desire through a dynamic new Australian lens. A brilliant and unexpected cast, to be revealed, will join a stellar creative team, including Set and Costume Designer Ailsa Paterson (The 39 Steps, Gaslight) and Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer Nigel Levings (Hydra, The King and I). Containing some of the most complex anti-heroes in the theatrical canon, this production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will pull the rug out from under a whole new generation.

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- Good night.

- Good night.

- It's 2:
00 in the morning.

- Oh, George.

Well, it is.

What a cluck.

What a cluck you are.

It's late, you know. It's late.

No kidding.

What a dump.

Hey, what's that from? 'What a dump!'

How would I know?

Oh, come on, what's it from?

You know.

Martha.

What's it from, for chrissake?

What's what from?

I just told you. I just did it.

'What a dump!'

- What's that from?

- I haven't the faintest idea.

Dumbbell.

It's from some damn

Bette Davis picture...

...some goddamnWarner Bros. Epic.

Martha, I can't remember all the pictures

that came out of Warner Bros.

Nobody's asking you to remember

every goddamnWarner Bros. Epic.

Just one. Just one singlelittle epic.

That's all.

Bette Davis gets peritonitis at the end.

She wears this blackfright wig

throughout the picture.

And she's married to Joseph Cotten

or something.

- Somebody.

- Somebody.

And she wants to go to Chicago

all the time...

...because she loves that actor

with the scar.

But she gets sick, and she

sits down in front of her dressing table...

What actor? What scar?

I can't remember his name,

for God's sake. What's the picture?

I want to know

what the name of the picture is.

She gets this peritonitis...

...but she decides to go

to Chicago anyway. And...

Chicago. It's called Chicago.

What? What is?

I mean the picture.

It's called Chicago.

Oh, good grief.

Don't you know anything?

Chicago was a '30s musical...

...starring little Miss Alice Faye.

Don't you know anything?

This picture...

...Bette Daviscomes home from

a hard day at the grocery store...

She works in a grocery store?

She's a housewife. She buys things.

She comes home with the groceries...

...and she walks into

the modestliving room...

...of the modest cottage

modest JosephCotten set her up in.

- Are they married?

- And...

Yes, they're married.

To each other, cluck.

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And she comes in,

and she looksaround this room...

...and she sets down her groceries.

And she says:

'What a dump!'

She's discontent.

Well, what's the name of the picture?

I really don't know, Martha.

Well, think!

Well, I'm tired, dear. It's late.

I don't know what you're tired about.

You didn't do anything today.

- I'm tired.

- You didn't have any classes.

Well, if your father didn't set up

these damned Saturday-night orgies...

That's just too bad about you, George.

Well, that's how it is anyway.

You didn't do anything.

You never do anything. You never mix.

You just sit around and talk.

Well, what do you want me to do? Bray

at everyone all night, the way you do?

I don't bray!

All right, you don't bray.

I did not bray.

I said you didn't bray.

Fix me a drink.

Haven't you had enough?

I said, fix me a drink.

Well, I don't suppose a nightcap

would kill either one of us.

A nightcap? Are you kidding?

We've got guests.

We've got what?

Guests. Guests.

Guests.

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Yeah, guests. People.

We've got guestscoming over.

When?

Now.

Good Lord, Martha,

do you know what time it is?

Yeah.

- Who's coming over?

- What's-their-name.

- Who?

- What's-their-name!

Who's what's-their-name?

I don't know their name, George.

You met them tonight. They're new. He's

in the Math Department or something.

I don't remember

meeting anybody tonight.

Well, you did.

Of all the asinine...

Who are these people?

- He's in the Math Department.

- Who?

He's in the Math Department.

He's young and he's blond.

He's good-looking, well-built?

Yes, good-looking, well-built.

- It figures.

- What?

Nothing. Nothing.

His wife's a mousylittle type

without any hips or anything.