“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albee comes to life on the stage of Little Town Theater Behind the Canal. Actors Irini Zambonas, Katlin Streyszynska, Malin Krastev and Vladimir Zombori with director Stoyan Radev involve the audience in a funny game that turns into an exchange of verbal blows and triumphs with a fatal ending.
The play puts the “cards on the table” revealing how, immersed in the networks of the global world, man loses his sensitivity to close immediate contact. And this callousness breeds violence.
With exceptional mastery, combining the comic and the tragic, the author makes us witness a night scene in which two couples, in the words of the characters themselves, “peel off labels” and “get to the bone marrow” in their relationships.
One night in the apartment of the spouses Martha and George, after another academic party, they invite a new colleague and his young wife to visit. Martha is the daughter of the university president, and George is a lecturer in the history department.
Instead of polite banter, the conversation quickly degenerated into an exchange of verbal blows. The alternation of sharp sarcasm and yet another truth escalates to the exposure of disappointment, unhappiness, and broken hopes built up over the years. “Taking off the labels” is transferred from Martha and George to their guests Nick and Honey.
Finally, morning comes, the guests depart, and Martha and George are left to comfort each other after publicly killing the illusion that sustains their union.
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