204 - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This episode is boring. I don't understand why the Waiting for Godot and As Is episodes are better than this.

I read the play for the first time just in order to listen to this episode, then listened to it on Spotify. I can absolutely understand why playwrights would love it, and certainly admire the technical proficiency of it. But man, I just felt nothing but a little disdain for the characters. Only a little, at that. They couldn't really rise to more than that. But it seems like a great exhibition for stage actors. It's just not for me, probably.

“The albatross says no…” dude I lost my shit. I really love you guys talking about theater it’s really fun. Hi from Grand Rapids!

OK now I got to the end and this play sounds absolutely nuts, I would love to see it someday, but even on the recording, it was wild. When you said there was Latin chanting , I thought it was a joke, and then it appeared. Holy heck

I saved this episode for after my show was over to cheer me up and give me more theater to think about. I know nothing about this play other than that it is famous so I’m looking forward to hearing you hype it up. The calling into the radio is so awkward. The sort of things always make me cringe, but I would never have the guts to have that conversation with somebody that famous.

Of course you have blonde eyed, blue haired pronouns

Also I’m a broken record on this but if you want the British version of this please check out Abigail’s Party there’s a filmed stage version by Mike Leigh and everything

Okay so the Saloon he’s talking about used to be next to my now husband’s apartment (it was called Cafe Torino at the time it’s something else now) is also famous for being the first place real guy Frank Serpico met with a reporter AND the downstairs bar/nightclub being one of Donna Summers first NYC gigs

I have some Edward Albee ITEMS (he was rude to a friend of mine!) but I said “huh I don’t know much about Albee’s background” so I go over to Wikipedia and the instant I saw “Rye County Day School” I said, out loud, “Oooooh that explains a lot”

Virginia Woolf: lycanthrope

The shadows are kept at bay every time I hear “It’s the pig…” Evergreen bit. More, please.

I love when yall do theater episodes. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is one of those plays I read in highschool theater class 15 years ago and have revisited every few years since. It hits so much harder the older I get.

Just ended a 10 year marriage; has also been a decade since I watched Zoo Story & Seascape. Never got to this one, though-- thanks for bringing these plays back for me, and for the discussion on loss & anger

Y'know, outside of the title I knew nothing about this play going into this episode. I can say it's honestly riveting to listen to and I'm sorely tempted to seek it out now.

This was the first play I ever read that wasn’t, like, Shakespeare for school. Despite being in theater for the majority of my youth I was really unfamiliar with straight theater because we only ever did musicals. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf opened up my world of theater, so to speak. It’s still one of my favorite plays, and I’m so excited for this episode!!

Also Marat/Sade episode would be great

If you are looking for the one good German musical “Elisabeth” is just a better gayer version of Evita (only watch the 90s or 2005 versions in the 2010s they cut the gay shit)