Upcoming: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Attic Rep, San Antonio, August 11 - 26

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo

August 11 - 26

THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAYS @ 8PM; SUNDAYS @ 2:30PM

Attic Rep at Trinity University, San Antonio (click for map) (click for directions)

$25.00 General Admission; $23.00 Seniors, Military, SATCO/ATAC members, Stieren Theater season subscribers, and Trinity Alumni; $10.00 Students with valid ID. 

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RepPass (3 Tickets) $60.00 Seniors, Military, Students, SATCO/ATAC, Stieren Theater season subscribers; $65.00 General Admission

George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces that she has invited a young couple to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive the charade begins. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt. It becomes clear that Martha is determined to seduce the young professor, and George couldn’t care less. But underneath the edgy banter, lurks an undercurrent of secrets and despair that is the foundation for their relationship. Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. The Broadway production of this play was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed the author as a major American playwright.

THE CAST: David Connelly, Gloria Sanchez-Molina, Brad Adams and Sarah Nixon

THE CREATIVE TEAM: Production Design by Hills Snyder and Jeremiah Teutsch, Lighting Design by Robin Crews, Costume Design by Montana Blanca. Stage Manager, Alessandro Fierros and Production Coordinator, Emily Barker.

THE PERFORMANCES :

THE TICKETS: $25.00 General Admission; $23.00 Seniors, Military, SATCO/ATAC members, Stieren Theater season subscribers, and Trinity Alumni; $10.00 Students with valid ID.

RepPass (3 Tickets) $60.00 Seniors, Military, Students, SATCO/ATAC, Stieren Theater season subscribers; $65.00 General Admission

San Antonio Auditions for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Attic Rep, February 18

Open Audition for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Saturday, February 18 from 2 P p.m. to 7 p.m.
Call backs Sunday, February 19 from 4 to 8 PM.
Audition is held in the Attic Theater, Taylor Fine Arts Bldg, Trinity University (click for campus map).

George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces that she has invited a young couple to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive the charade begins. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt. It becomes clear that Martha is determined to seduce the young professor, and George couldn't care less. But underneath the edgy banter, lurks an undercurrent of secrets and despair that is the foundation for their relationship. Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play. The Broadway production of this play was a shattering and memorable experience and proclaimed the author as a major American playwright. Directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo.

Performances are August 6 through 26, 2012 Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM. Rehearsal starts at the end of June 2012. Actors receive pay.

Please, email Roberto@atticrep.org to schedule your audition time. Bring a headshot and resume. Audition consists of a one-minute monologue. Click for character descriptions at AustinLiveTheatre.com..

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward's University, November 11 - 21

I knew that this was going to be intense. I had invited friends to see it with me, and we had seats in the middle of the front row, south side of the "theatre in the square" at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre. After Michelle Polgar had dedicated the opening night's performance to the memory of Oscar Brockett, that grand old man of Austin theatre, the lights began to fade and I had a feeling similar to that you get when you light the fuse on a fistful of firecrackers and throw them down.

My usual view is that a cinema version of the text is irrelevant to the stage performance, but here I have to admit that in any staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the ghost of Richard Burton and the presence of Elizabeth Taylor roil fitfully about the set. The movie rating code had just been instituted when Mike Nichols' film was released in 1966. The MPAA had relented after a couple of minor revisions of the dialogue and gave it a "suggested for mature audiences" rating. In my town meant that you had to be 18 years of age to get in, unless accompanied by a parent. My father, a secret movie buff, insisted that I see it and he stood behind me as my 17-year-old self bought my ticket.

Thirteen Academy award nominations, including for Nichols as director and all four in the cast, with five wins, including Taylor as the monstrous Martha and Sandy Dennis as an unforgettably inebriated bubble-blowing little wife. So how can a contemporary theatrical production stand up to that?

The answer in Austin is simple but three-fold: by playing to an audience predominantly of college students who do not know the film; by enlisting Babs George for the role of Martha and Ev Lunning Jr. for the role of George; and with Christie Moore's tight direction in Leilah Stewart's starkly effective, almost claustrophobic set.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mary Moody Northern Theatre, St. Edward's University, November 11 - 21

Received directly:

Edward Albee's

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

slams onto the Mary Moody Northen Theatre stage

Directed by Christina J. Moore

November 11 - 21

Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 3001 South Congress Avenue

Campus map: http://www.stedwards.edu/map/

TICKETS: Reserved seating, available through the MMNT box office at 448-8484.

Advance $15 ($12 students, seniors, St. Edward’s community); All tickets $18 at the door.

Box office is open 1-5 p.m. Monday–Friday and 1 hour prior to curtain.

SPECIAL STUDENT NIGHT: Thursday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m. -- All student tickets half price with ID

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward’s University Theatre Program, presents Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the lauded American drama by Edward Albee, running November 11 - 21, 2010.

Albee’s powerful 1962 tale of love, politics and marriage slams onto the stage in a dynamic acting tour-de-force. Middle-aged academic George and his wife Martha invite a new professor and his wife over for a nightcap. The night of intellectual fun and games descends into marital warfare as the older couple employs the younger as pawns in their tense psychological battle. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? remains as pertinent, thrilling and, ultimately, devastating today as when it catapulted Albee to fame. Featuring Equity guests Babs George and Ev Lunning, Jr.

Recommended for mature audiences.

“[A] timeless play…unforgettable power.” (Ben Brantley, NY Times)

About St. Edward's University Founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross, St. Edward's University is named among the top five "Up-and-Coming Universities" in the Western Region by its academic peers in a 2011 U.S. News & World Report survey. For eight consecutive years St. Edward's has been recognized as one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report and this year by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. St. Edward's is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university of more than 5,200 students located in Austin, Texas. For more information on St. Edward’s University, visit www.stedwards.edu.