A brand new manufacturing of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee will run at @sohoplace this autumn.
The manufacturing will star Gillian Anderson as Martha and Billy Crudup as George, alongside Josh Dylan as Nick and Phoebe Horn as Honey. It will likely be directed by Marianne Elliott.
Set on the campus of an American faculty, the play follows Martha and George, who invite a youthful couple, Nick and Honey, again to their dwelling in the early hours. Over the course of the evening, the two {couples} have interaction in a collection of escalating exchanges as the night strikes in the direction of a second of reality. It was final seen in the West End in 2017 with Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill.
Sonia Friedman Productions, in affiliation with Nica Burns, will produce the present, which can run at @sohoplace from 21 September to 19 December 2026, with a press evening on 30 September. The manufacturing will likely be staged in the spherical, with Friedman saying at the moment: “Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is one of the defining performs of the trendy theatre – uncooked, ferociously humorous and devastating in equal measure.
“To bring it to life with actors of the calibre of Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup, under the direction of the extraordinary Marianne Elliott, is a thrilling prospect. Staged in the round @sohoplace, this production will place audiences right inside George and Martha’s dangerous games, in a play that remains as shocking and truthful today as when Albee first wrote it.”
Burns added: “Sonia Friedman has brought together an outstanding creative team helmed by the brilliant Marianne Elliott with a remarkable cast led by Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup. We are excited that the first American classic to be presented @sohoplace will offer a different experience – thrillingly up close and personal – of Albee’s intense play in the intimacy of our in-the-round auditorium.”
The artistic group additionally contains Miriam Buether as designer, James Farncombe as lighting designer, Ian Dickinson as sound designer, and Jim Carnahan as casting director.
