Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games.

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For Mike Nichols's first time as a film director he was joined by the most infamous couple in Hollywood--Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Shortly after their newsmaking affair on the set of Cleopatra, Taylor and Burton were looking for a different reason to make headlines together--great performances. On that point, they certainly delivered. Joined in their tight cast by George Segal and Sandy Dennis--then newcomers plucked from Broadway--the result is on screen chemistry of explosive proportions. 

Adapted from Edward Albee's maginificent, loquatious, and absurd play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf takes place during one claustrophibic evening in a university town. A drunken faculty party wittles down to a party of four at George and Martha's house. George, an associate professor of history, and Martha, the university presdident's daughter have a captive audience for their tumultuous relationship in Nick and Honey, a young biology professor and his "wifey little mouse." The evening evolves into an unravelling of manners and a tightening of the grand fictions invented in order to survive life with the one you love.