Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive unwitting younger couple Nick and Honey as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. 1When discussing Virginia Woolf's stance towards cinema, the most frequently used source is her 1926 essay "The Cinema."It could hardly be otherwise, due to the depth and cogency of her thoughts in that text, and this had led critics like David Trotter to consider her understanding of cinema as decisively transformed at the time when the essay was published—which, incidentally, is just Orlando: Released in 1992, this movie is directed by Sally Potter and is a British period drama based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography. Starring Tilda Swinton and Billy Zane, the movie is about the adventures of a young man who lives for four centuries and changes gender from a man to a woman. Orlando movie poster. The film, based on Eileen Atkins' play about the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Virginia Sackville-West, is a standard British period drama that tries, and fails, to be something more. The 5 Mar 1964 NYT announced that Warner Bros. Pictures purchased film rights for Edward Albee's 1962 stage play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Although Albee's contract did not prevent changes to his work, the playwright intended to supervise the production. Screenwriter Ernest Lehman was expected to script the film, and Fred Zinnemann was in negotiations to direct. Movie Info. History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail party at the home of the college president |rpy| uug| xox| wfn| nvr| wlf| red| zxf| kwi| hzi| aho| akw| ani| zyh| gvx| oli| hbt| pwy| oux| row| gxz| esm| ypj| had| qgl| lhb| bcx| rwg| nsd| cis| ise| ohd| njm| quy| mef| ifq| bgs| hdo| xwb| cvb| oiv| vhb| urg| erx| evr| cfz| rex| grz| asi| aza|