Cocktails with George and Martha
04 April 2024Imprint: Ithaka
Synopsis
'Well-researched ... I was fascinated' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail
From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage. It scandalised critics but magnetised...
From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage. It scandalised critics but magnetised...
Details
04 April 2024304 pages
9781804186756Imprint: Ithaka
Reviews
'Well-researched ... I was fascinated'Roger Lewis, author of Erotic Vagrancy
'A penetrating examination of a bold film'Kirkus Reviews
'Terrific! With a dynamically deft touch, Philip Gefter chronicles how a uniquely volatile mix of timing, talent, pressure, and passion turned a landscape-altering play into a cinematic detonation. Savour this juicy bit of time travel, because we'll never see the likes of these people and these circumstances again'Steven Soderbergh
'Delicious ... unapologetically obsessive ... [Gefter gets] to the marrow: of male ego, rushing into new projects with hubris and jostling for posterity'The New York Times Book Review
