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Living room absurdism by Albert Williams

It may be difficult to comprehend today just how shocking Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was when it premiered in October 1962, the same week that the Cuban missile crisis began. While the atomic fireworks the world feared never happened, Albee's three-act, three-hour-plus masterpiece detonated an explosion that rocked American culture to […] The post Living room absurdism appeared first on Ch…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:45PM on May 17, 2022

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