Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Trafalgar Studios
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
MATTHEW Kelly will star alongside Tracey Childs in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which runs at Trafalgar Studio 2 from Tuesday, April 14 to Saturday, May 9, 2009.
In Albee’s searing drama, George and Martha have been married 23 years. He teaches at a small New England college run by Martha’s father whom he’d hoped, one day, to succeed. But things haven’t turned out quite like George expected; in fact, in Martha’s words, he’s just “a bog” in the history department.
Then one night, a good-looking biology professor and his young wife arrive for a nightcap. Soon however, they find themselves ‘blood sport’ in what becomes a booze-drenched evening…..
Although Kelly will always be remembered as a television presenter (Stars in Their Eyes), he has appeared regularly on stage and, in 2004, won the Best Actor Olivier for his performance as gentle giant Lennie in Birmingham Rep’s production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men which transferred to the West End’s Savoy Theatre.
His more recent credits include Forgotten Voices (Riverside Studios) and the current Victory: Choices in Reaction (Arcola Theatre).
On stage, Childs has had lead roles in Miss Julie, Private Lives and High Society; while her television credits include Born and Bred and Howards’ Way (as Lynne Howard).
Childs and Kelly previously worked together in a 1987 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Andrew Hall directs a cast that also includes Louise Kempton and Mark Farrelly.
Albee’s play was last produced in the West End in 2006 when Kathleen Turner received an Olivier Award nomination for her performance as Martha.
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