The Irish Times October 5, 2018
Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Annie McNamara. Photo by Joan Marcus
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf • Press
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Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf review: Who’s afraid of this trashy takedown?
By: Peter Crawley
George and Martha, the rancorous protagonists of Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, have always been saturated in fiction. Their marriage is a lie, sustained by the lacerating invention of constant game play, in which truth is always negotiable: “Maybe, maybe not.” Kate Scelsa’s acerbic, postmodern riff on the play for Elevator Repair Service, a feminist clapback to Albee’s more self-serving conceits, takes another look at these fascinatingly ambiguous characters and claims to have their number.
Excerpt from “Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf review: Who’s afraid of this trashy takedown?” by Peter Crawley. Read the full article here.