{"id":612,"date":"2011-11-22T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=612"},"modified":"2011-11-22T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:51:53","slug":"playmakers-to-present-albees-tony-award-winner-virginia-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"PlayMakers to present Albee\u2019s Tony Award-winner \u2018Virginia Woolf\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PlayMakers Repertory Company will celebrate the holidays a little differently this year, with something for those who need a night off from family activities and all the \u201cfa-la-la.\u201d<\/p>\n

The professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present Edward Albee\u2019s hilarious marital slugfest \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d Nov. 30-Dec. 18.
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\u201cIt has been said that love is a battlefield,\u201d said Joseph Haj, PlayMakers producing artistic director. \u201cMeet two of the struggle\u2019s consummate contenders in this knock-down, drag-out love story from the savagely wicked pen of a master American playwright.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u201d won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963. However, it was considered so scandalous that after the Pulitzer Prize committee chose it for the award for drama, it then back-tracked and didn\u2019t present an award that year. More than half the Pulitzer committee resigned in protest.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Virginia Woolf\u201d will definitely be a change of pace for the holidays,\u201d Haj said. \u201cTake the worst family get-together you can imagine, add a fifth of scotch and chase it with some of the best one-liners in American theater for a truly unforgettable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longtime PlayMakers company members Ray Dooley and Julie Fishell, seen last season as another less-than-functional couple in PlayMakers\u2019 production of \u201cHappy Days,\u201d will play George and Martha, the couple portrayed in \u201cVirginia Woolf.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times said the play has \u201cabundant alarming humor that finds the gut-wrenching factor in belly laughs.\u201d Variety called the play \u201centirely engrossing \u2026 relentlessly intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wendy C. Goldberg will direct the PlayMakers production. Goldberg is in her eighth season as artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., which received the 2010 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers will perform \u201cVirginia Woolf\u201d in the Paul Green Theatre in UNC\u2019s Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Shows will be 7:30 p.m. nightly Tuesdays through Saturdays; 2 p.m. on Dec. 10 and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a schedule, information and tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.playmakersrep.org<\/a>. Tickets are $10 to $45.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 22 at 6:30 p.m., PlayMakers will host a behind-the-scenes preview of the play, \u201cThe Vision Series: Directors in Conversation\u201d with Goldberg. Anyone interested in the creative process is invited to the Paul Green Theatre to share refreshments and a sneak peek at the set and upcoming production.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Vision Series\u201d is free to the public. Reservations are appreciated. Call PlayMakers at (919) 962-7529 to RSVP.<\/p>\n

Other special events during \u201cVirginia Woolf\u201d will include:<\/p>\n