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  <title><![CDATA[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;Twelve times a week,&quot; answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in &lt;i&gt;Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&lt;/i&gt; Like her, neither audiences nor critics could get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, &lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;/i&gt; rightly foresaw &lt;i&gt;Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&lt;/i&gt; as &quot;a brilliantly original work of art-an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.&quot;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This play makes me squirm with discomfort every time I read it.  My mother raised me to be so conscious of manners that I'm practically Southern.  <br/><br/>Even though George and Martha are just horrible, I can't help cackle at some of the insults they sling.  When Martha says that George doesn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1125843">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My apologies, Miska, as it is simply impossible to describe the themes and messages contained within without giving away the surprising twist at the end of the play. If you've not read or seen it yet and you have the slightest desire to do so in the future, I'd recommend that you simply stop here.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16920764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2483699">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 28 07:36:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, in my opinion, the best play ever written in the 20th century. There's also a great story about how this was the first drama rejected by the Pulitzer Prize committee for &quot;obscenity&quot; (you may have a hard time finding the obscenity in it, though, since it's from 1962). It's basicall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2483699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 02 16:19:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 24 09:30:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been wanting to read a play for a long time now, and this was definitely a good choice. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf by Edward Albee is about a dysfunctional couple, their relationship, and their interactions with another couple. Not only is the dialogue in this play exceptional, but the play...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9851373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2977681">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 07:39:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 17:57:27 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The central theme of this play is living without pretense.  It involves 4 characters (and you will hate each of them) who berate each other through three acts.  People have always raved to me about it, but I must admit that I can't understand why - rather than being emotionally jarred and on-edge, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2977681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74943868">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a yellowing copy of this book at a thrift store for 20 cents and, given the price, thought that I had nothing lose in buying it. I had tried to read it in 7th grade when I was going through a little play phase but hated it then. I am so glad that I gave it a second chance. <br/>The book is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74943868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61365630">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, quite simply, one of my all time favourite plays.  There is a film version, with Burton and Taylor as the two main characters, and while this isn’t a bad version (and it is in glorious black and white) I think that film struggles with words and this is a wordy play. And then there is that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61365630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60490042">
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    <body><![CDATA[Albee’s critically acclaimed play is well worth 90 minutes of your reading time. It is humorous but not light-hearted; situated in a simple setting with complex characters. Albee’s characters explore the topics of marriage, trust and hurtfulness. He asks us to consider how much stress and emotio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60490042">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[   Oh Edward Albee, what a dramatic piece of fiction you've created for the 20th century audience. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf illuminates the lives of two different couples, Martha and George as well as Nick and Honey in a New England town either in the 50's or the 60's. The troubles that surrou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70901642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37492729">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always assumed I wouldn't like this play. Every dramatic piece I had to read in High School swelled and gushed with overly dramatic emotions and actions and jazzhands and what have you. Shit, even <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Vonnegut" title="Vonnegut">Vonnegut</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Happy Birthday, Wanda June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a> was something I couldn't get into. I would, basically, come out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37492729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24787144">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 18 06:11:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 18 06:12:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so horrible. I know that it might be classic literature but I had to struggle to get through it. The whole book takes place in the same room in the same house over the time of one evening. It's two couples who fight all the time and they have an imaginary son and all they do is fight. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24787144">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in a single day!  Read the first half on a 90 minute train commute, and the second half on the ride back.  I can honestly say that this play made me feel unlike anything else I've ever read—it was uniquely disturbing.  The setting is similar to that of Sartre's “No Exit”-- a small ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77174107">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44433564">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the great stage plays to come out of the USA, and while it provides the script for a tremendous theatrical experience, it can also baffle and horrify the reader.  For reading, I suggest taking a break between each of the three acts.<br/><br/>Theatrically, it achieves an allegorical ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44433564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4747083">
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    <body><![CDATA[i am...i am... no, i'm not, really.  V woolf kinda bugs me actually but this play is pretty good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Christ on a Cross</em> this is why humans have developed a writing system!]]></body>
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    <review id="53151357">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a classic play. I once saw Edward Albee speak at my college and just felt awed at his talent. &quot;Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&quot; is a play that makes you uncomfortable; makes you laugh; makes you cry; and makes you self-examine. It's dark themes -- alcoholism, a failing marriage, st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53151357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5897056">
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    <body><![CDATA[There's nothing I like more than reading a text where the location and plot are practically meaningless, and where the people are so fascinating and so flawed that they're all that matters within the story.<br/><br/>My father used to rant and rave about how wonderful this play was, and his review ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62371191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's easy to be put off by Edward Albee's masterpiece of marital discord. If Martha's &quot;braying&quot; isn't enough to make you squirm in your seat, the way George takes her abuse (albeit lobbing some quiet, yet damaging volleys of his own) might make you want to run screaming.<br/><br/>Given a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22722646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been ages since I read a play...probably not since I was assigned to read them when I was a student.  They are not my favorite genre to read, mostly because so much is missing for me without visual descriptions, etc.  It is true, however, that in plays the story is carried along by the dialog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7166192">more...</a>]]></body>
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