Broadway Scenes Remembered: Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
…ly taking some time off to allow moral decay to reach new heights. Using a combination of dark comedy, absurdist technique, and deftly dramatic timing, Albee’s deeply psychological characters were desperate, lost, and vicious in their attempts to survive an alcohol drenched evening that would destroy private worlds, which took years to manufacture. New York Times reviewer Howard Taubman wrote, “Thanks to Edward Albee’s furious skill as a writer, A…