Edward Albee

Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want... so don't worry about me! George: Martha, I gave you the prize years ago... There isn't an abomination award going that you... Martha: I swear... if you existed I'd divorce you... When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for...

Albee’s perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama … dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to proffer it is a species of bestiality far more abhorrent than the sexual kind. Variety On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect, prepares for a recorded interview by an...

George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young couple—an opportunistic new professor at the college and his naïve new bride—to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive, the charade begins. The drinks flow and inhibitions...