Designing The Movies: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? – 60th Anniversary Screening!

60th Anniversary Screening! 

George and Martha cordially invite you for an evening of fun and games.

For his feature film debut, Mike Nichols directs real-life spouses Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Edward Albee’s acclaimed play. It’s a searing, fly-on-the-wall portrait of the complexities of a bitterly unhappy marriage where the biting wit puts the fun in dysfunctional.

In a sleepy New England college town, the middle-aged couple host impromptu drinks for new young faculty (George Segal and Sandy Dennis, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). The verbal sparring descends into vicious psychological brutality and reveals piercing truths. Playing against type, Taylor is at her screeching fishwife best (and earned her second Academy Award for Best Actress here) opposite Burton’s weary thesp in this big, nasty marital brawl about infidelity, alcoholism, abortion, and sex.

The movie also won Oscars for Haskell Wexler’s stunning black-and-white cinematography, Irene Sharaff’s costume design, and Richard Sylbert’s art direction. Presented with an introduction from series host Nathalie Atkinson.

Part of the Designing the Movies series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director: Mike Nichols | Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis