I cannot begin to explain what an amazing drama this is. In the beginning it feels like a somewhat ordirary commedy with those two old shags nagging at each other, acting silly and embarrassing themselves in front of their younger but seemingly more sophisticated guests. However, the more you read (or watch, as it is a play after all), the more you start to contemplate what a deeply psychological drama this is and how it slowly reveils the ugly truth about an entire generation, hidden behind the beautiful façade of the American Dream. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or the story of two damaged individuals. Throughout the play I couldn't make up my mind whether I pitied them, hated them or was thoroughly impressed by them. And as more things are being revelied and I begin to think I finally understand, BAM! and the whole perception changes. In this play you never know what is real and what is not. The games that Martha and George are playing with their guests are drawing the audience so thoroughly in, that you begin to feel as if those two are toying with you too. And there is no escape from their games for one simple reason - you want to know the truth, you want to understand. You won't. I think this is what this realistic-surrealistic play is all about - you never know the boundry between what's real and what's not. You read Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and just as you think you finally get it, they change the rules or stop the game completely. And you're left with nothing but confusion again.
I like the ending of the play. It feels like it's almost saying "Let's stop living a lie." And it is quite telling because we all have the masks that we wear and the games that we play; this provided, how can we even start to think we know other people when we've guarded ourselves with lies? The play is questioning reality and mentality and the meaning of the word "normal". It implies that after all we're all at least a little damaged.
I like the ending of the play. It feels like it's almost saying "Let's stop living a lie." And it is quite telling because we all have the masks that we wear and the games that we play; this provided, how can we even start to think we know other people when we've guarded ourselves with lies? The play is questioning reality and mentality and the meaning of the word "normal". It implies that after all we're all at least a little damaged.