Who’s Afriad Of Virginia Woolf
CREATIVES
Writer Edward Albee
Director Sarah Goodes
Set/Costume Design Harriet Oxley
Lighting Design Jason Ng Junjie
Composition/Sound Design Grace Ferguson & Ethan Hunter
Asst. Director Keegan Bragg
Set/Costume Design Asst. Natalie Petrellis
Stage Manager Kelly Wilson
Assistant Stage Manager Georgina Bright
CAST
Emily Goddard
Kat Stewart
David Whiteley
Harvey Zielinski
Damon Baudin (Understudy)
Albee’s classic slugfest is, at least on the surface, an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about notions of decency and respectability, with a brutality and sustained menace that tore through the anxieties of the age. The play’s ritualised deconstruction of marriage, gender, sexuality and ambition still ring true to this day.
Yet, Albee’s characters also tell a love story: a story of shared acceptance of an inescapable fate. The inertia and grotesque irony of Martha and George’s romance is served up to their unwitting guests as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2023
Photographer Jodie Hutchinson
