It's Albee's Classic Play at Melbourne's Fairfax Studio

Evergreen Australian actors Wendy Hughes and Garry Macdonald take to the Melbourne stage in a new production by the Melbourne Theatre Company of Edward Albee's dazzlingly brilliant play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Macdonald and Hughes play Albee's alcohol-fueled spouses George and Martha in a night of discontent, dismay, disillusion, overpowering rage and tragic discovery.

Awards and accolades

The Albee play was adjudged best play at the 1963 Tony Awards and at the 1962-63 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards.

Film and stage performer Hughes has received several nominations at the Australian Film Institute Awards and was named best actress for her role in the movie Careful He Might Hear You. TV, film and stage actor Macdonald, probably best known for his Norman Gunston persona and for his role in the long-running television series Mother and Son, has received several Logies television awards and been inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.

The current production is directed by MTC associate director Peter Evans, and also features two of the country's most promising younger actors, Helpmann Award-winner (for her role in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Doubt) Alison Bell and Stephen Phillips.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is at the Fairfax Studio of the Melbourne Arts Centre until October 6.

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Photo: Wendy Hughes and Garry Macdonald in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, courtesy Melbourne Theatre Company