Productions

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Author:
Edward Albee
Director:
Mladen Kiselov

On rare occasions in life there comes a night you’ll never forget.

A night, when all the demons lurking beneath the surface are released and take over, so that suddenly you find yourself playing a dangerous game, which you no longer control. A night, when everything becomes embarrassingly open and all the pain that you’ve been suppressing during the years, suddenly bursts out of you. And yet, it is all caused by love – by big, overwhelming and eternal love.

Among the playwrights of the 20th century, Edward Albee is one of the most masterful experts of psychology, but he’s also a humanist who firmly believes in freedom and dignity. His play was staged in the Tallinn City Theatre by Mladen Kiselov (1943-2012), a renowned Bulgarian director who graduated from GITIS in Moscow in 1968 as a student of Anatoli Efros, from 1980 worked mainly in the United States as director and drama professor, and spent his last years living and working in Estonia.

Awards:
2010 Andrus Vaarik – Tallinn City Theatre’s colleague award for best leading actor

Author

Edward Albee

Director

Mladen Kiselov

Translated by

Lydia Mölder and Triin Sinissaar

Set and costume design by

Iir Hermeliin

Premiere

23. January 2010

Venue

Chamber Theatre

Duration

3 hours and 30 minutes (with intermissions), in three acts

The cast

Kristiina-Hortensia Port (külalisena)