Caustic and humorous portrayal of love and marriage at Baxter
2007-07-05
FOLLOWING its South African première at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown this year, Edward Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the award-winning caustic and humorous portrayal of love and marriage, explodes onto the stage of the Baxter Theatre today, and runs until 4 August.
Directed by Janice Honeyman, it stars Fiona Ramsay, Sean Taylor, Nicholas Pauling and Erica Wessels.
Janice Honeyman tackles this complex but entertaining black comedy with a cast of four of the formidable actors in the country today.
As the erudite older couple, the multi-award-winning Fiona Ramsay, currently on SABC 2’s Justice for All and also recently seen in Hard Copy, plays opposite Sean Taylor, who returns to SA from Australia after winning the 2006 Fleur du Cap and Naledi Awards for Best Actor for his performance in Exits and Entrances.
The unsuspecting younger couple are played by Erica Wessels, 2005 Fleur du Cap Award-winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, and Nicholas Pauling, winner of the 2006 Fleur du Cap Award for Best Actor for Amadeus.
The play has been described as “a pulse-racing masterpiece …a great marital wrestling match of a play” by The New York Times; “seductively delicious” by USA Today; “a giddy, vicious thrill” by Entertainment Weekly; and the Washington Post proclaimed it “toxic, acidly funny, nasty and hilarious.”
Raw nerve and emotional brutality fuel the fire when a quintessentially dysfunctional couple, well into their middle-ages, tear savagely at each other to cover up the emotional baggage which they both carry.
Book at 083 915 8000 or 021 680 3989.
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