Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf **** TNT
There’s no escaping the vitriol of Edward Albee’s 1962 drama – not for new biology professor Nick and his wife, nor for the audience when they share a post-party nightcap with long-married couple Martha and George.
The intimate staging sucks you right into the living room of their New England home, a battlefield for their booze-fuelled slanging matches.
Hopelessly out of their depth, Mark Farrelly’s ambitious Nick and Louise Kempton’s naïve Honey are pawns in games of ‘Hump The Hostess’ and ‘Humiliate The Host’, ruthlessly played by Tracey Childs’ Martha and her spouse. And, as failed academic George, Matthew Kelly oozes a cruel, crumpled inadequacy fostered by the destructive co-dependency of a barren, hate-filled marriage.
Trafalgar Studios 2, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross (0870 060 6632). Until May 9. £27.50
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