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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Probably the most well-known of Edward Albee's plays, first performed in New York in 1962. The play centers around the vicious love-hate relationship between a college professor, George, and his shrewish wife, Martha, and their encounter with a young couple, Nick and Honey, who, it turns out, are not exactly the ideal couple either. Virginia Woolf won both the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Drama. It is a black comedy whose characters display the dysfunctional traits typical of Albee's earlier works. In 1966, the play was adapted as a film by fledgling director Mike Nichols, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor as the ever-battling George and Martha, and a pair of promising young actors, George Segal and Sandy Denis, as Nick and Honey. The film earned Elizabeth Taylor her second Best Actress Academy Award and Sandy Denis an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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