Theatre Royal Bath Productions has announced that Elizabeth McGovern will star in a brand new production of Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Lindsay Posner, which will run in the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal Bath from 13 January to 11 February 2023.
Further cast and creative team to be announced soon.
During the course of one brutal and hilarious night, George, a college professor, and his wife Martha invite a young couple back for late-night drinks after a faculty party. As the alcohol flows, the guests are coerced into witnessing and participating in George and Martha’s sadistic game-playing and vitriolic verbal scrapping which reaches its climax in a momentous revelation.
First staged on Broadway in 1962, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? was soon established as one of the great plays in post-war American drama, winner of the Tony and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Play. Sixty years on from its premiere, it is now seen as one of the most influential and highly regarded plays in American literature.
