GWB Entertainment, Andrew Henry Presents and Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre have today confirmed that the critically acclaimed Red Stitch production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Kat Stewart and directed by Sarah Goodes, has secured an historic and strictly limited 3-week mainstage commercial season at the Comedy Theatre in June 2024.
Regarded as one of the most explosive and darkly comic plays in the English language, and in most pundits’ Top Ten of the 20th Century, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? burst back onto the Red Stitch stage in November last year, hailed by the critics as “electrifying”, “outstanding” and “pitch-perfect.”
In this jet-black comedy featuring some of the most crackling dialogue and savage one-liners ever written for the stage, Kat Stewart and David Whiteley portray Martha and George, whose marriage is served up to their unwitting guests, played by Emily Goddard and Harvey Zielinski, as a taste of the humiliations and the inevitable compromises to come.
This masterful play is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age.
In a unique, industry-leading partnership, and for the first time in Red Stitch’s 23-year history, the Melbourne-born contemporary theatre company will have one of its productions transferred from its 80-seat home space in a converted church hall in St Kilda, to a commercial mainstage.
On behalf of the producers GWB Entertainment and Andrew Henry Presents who were behind last year’s blockbuster production of Death of a Salesman featuring Anthony LaPaglia, Andrew Henry said: “We instantly knew from Kat Stewart’s explosive performance that she, and this timeless classic, deserved to be seen by a much wider audience,” he said.
“This dynamic Red Stitch production directed by Sarah Goodes, has such unyielding ferocity that we were immediately excited by the prospect of presenting an upscaled version of this extraordinary work at the Comedy Theatre,” said Mr Henry.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? plays Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from 29 June for a strictly limited 3-week season. Tickets on sale from Friday 19 April 2024. For more information, visit: www.virginiawoolf.com.au for details.
