Estrenada en Broadway en 1962 cosechó un gran éxito de crítica y público. Albee disecciona en ella dos matrimonios para contar las mentiras en las que se basan. La conclusión es que el engaño no es solo un problema individual, sino un mal nacional.
A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous playwinner of the Tony Award for Best Play.Twelve times a week, answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often shed like to play Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albees masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evenings end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With its razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as a brilliantly original work of artan excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined for a social evening by another faculty couple at a New England college. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts
Losada incorpora a su colección Gran Teatro tres piezas magistrales de una de las mayores figuras del teatro estadounidense: Un delicado equilibrio (1966), Tres mujeres altas (1992) y La cabra o ¿qui
