Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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Written by Edward Albee Directed by Shannon Khatcheressian |
Synopsis:
A Play in three acts by Edward Albee, published and produced in 1962. The action takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome. When Nick, a young biology professor, and his strange wife Honey stop by for a nightcap, they are enlisted as fellow fighters, and the battle begins. A long night of malicious games, insults, humiliations, betrayals, painful confrontations, and savage witticisms ensues. The secrets of both couples are laid bare and illusions are viciously exposed.
George: Chip Rome
Martha: Wynn Creasy
Honey: Erin Anderson King
Nick: Scott Pafumi
Producers: Shannon Joy Khatcheressian, Colleen Stock
Director: Shannon Joy Khatcheressian
Production Manager: Colleen Stock
Stage Manager: Christy Jacobs
Assistant Stage Manager: Christine Spata
Set Design: Nick Brown
Set Construction/Painting: Earl Boatman, NOVA Theatre Students
Technical Director/Master Carpenter/Electrician: Earl Boatman
Set Decoration/Dressing: Mike Smith
Lighting Design:Steven L Barker
Light Board Programmer/Operator: Ian Claar
Sound Design: Benjamin Allen
Sound Board Operator: Ashley Swinger
Costume, Makeup/Hair Design*: Molly Hicks Larson
Properties: Brieann Anderson, Evan Lattig
Publicity: Michael Schaaff
House/Box Office Manager: Barbara Carpenter
Poster Design: Nick Arey
Photography: Brett Zinger
Playbill Design: Matthew Randall
* Special thanks to Color Specialists Alexa Zagorites
and Margaret Murphy of Modern Concepts Salon.
I would like to first and foremost thank you for your support of the performing arts and in particular, Taking Flight Theatre Company. As the Artistic Director for the company and Director for the first production under the Taking Flight umbrella this season, I could not be more thrilled to bring Edward Albee’s classic to our stage.
Albee has given us a window into the world of two couples who, like so many of us, appear to have everything on the outside and are struggling to maintain the idea of truth verses illusion to those around us. It has truly been a pleasure to see these characters come to life and to be a part of the process these actors have gone through in order to bring their inner turmoil to the surface.
How far will we go to establish a sense of reality that makes us feel as though we have fulfilled all that life is “supposed” to offer us? How far will we go in order to make sure that those around us believe that we are “successful “and how does each of us measure that success? How often do we hurt those that we love the most, in order to justify where we are in life?
This is what I love about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: following these four individuals as they bare their souls through the wee hours of the morning, we see a bit of ourselves in them. Perhaps not the side we wish to see, however in each of them a raw side of us is exposed that may make us wince, but in the same token, makes us pause, reflect and possibly, change.
–Shannon Khatcheressian
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