Edward Albee, the award-winning playwright who instilled fire-breathing life into George and Martha, the middle-aged couple who made his “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” a clenched battleground of love-hate matrimony, has died. Even “Tiny Alice,” the 1964 play that took a radical turn toward the symbolic after the earthy “Virginia Woolf,” was appreciated anew in a late-’90s revival. “I hope so!” “The Goat” earned Albee a best-play Tony Award, the second of his career — 39 years after “Virginia Woolf” yielded the first. Holy Christ, maybe I could be a playwright.” Albee often said that he mulled his plays for months, sometimes for many years, without writing a word. “Virginia Woolf” also spawned assertions that Albee was a misogynist because of his portrayal of the raging, foul-mouthed Martha.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 17, 2016 00:26 UTC