EDWARD ALBEE’S
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
DIRECTED BY MARGARET HARVEY
Jimi Bani
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Great plays create great conversations every time they are performed. Lee Lewis Artistic Director
Tonight, we are seeing not only the conversations between George and Martha, Nick and Honey, but between Edward and Margaret. Edward Albee and Margaret Harvey. Playwright and Director. American and Australian. A conversation about truth, fear, love, history, men, women and power. This is all meant to provoke conversation in us. Edward Albee is one of America’s great provocateurs. This play was deeply confronting when it met its first audiences in its themes and in its language. The controversy continued when it went to film — ‘Screw you!’ was changed to ‘Goddamn you!’, but the Motion Picture Association of America finally agreed to keep the famous ‘hump the hostess’. Language that seems tame now was wildly aggressive then — but the spirit of provocation still lives inside the play. Edward Albee was fearless in his willingness to expose truths with his words and provoke his audience into seeing themselves. Directors must have great courage to stage those truths in the bodies of actors, live, on a stage, in front of us. You cannot shy away from his spirit of provocation.
The shape that the provocation takes alters in every production. I wish I had seen the Elevator Repair Service production of Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf which included vampires… I want to thank Margaret Harvey for her fearlessness in meeting Albee’s challenges. As a Queensland artist, she enters into the conversation with her unique and powerful voice and makes a case for seeing the politics of the original within us, as opposed to leaving them in their original American frame. I want to thank the extraordinary cast for putting themselves into the Albee/Harvey crucible — courage indeed. I want to thank Mitchell Butel for his vision and the State Theatre Company South Australia for celebrating the talent of Queensland artists. I want to thank Production Partner Griffith University for partnering with Queensland Theatre for 20 years to ensure we create fearless theatre for Queensland audiences. Thank you for being up for a great conversation. — Lee Lewis
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12 — 26 FEB PLAYHOUSE, QPAC
QUEENSLAND THEATRE PRESENTS THE STATE THEATRE COMPANY SOUTH AUSTRALIA PRODUCTION OF
EDWARD ALBEE’S
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? DIRECTED BY MARGARET HARVEY
Nick and his wife Honey are new in town and accept an invitation to an intimate afterparty at the home of George and Martha. As the spirits flow and the conversation grows ominous, the four find themselves locked in a cruel sparring match with a hidden agenda. In the small hours of the night, this boozy gathering becomes a frenzy of savage insults, spiteful mind games and wicked humiliations. Arts South Australia
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By the time the sun rises, all secrets will be laid bare, and none of them will ever be the same again. Edward Albee's electrifying masterpiece veers between reality and illusion, between hatred and desire. This play shouldn't be funny, but it is — caustic, spectacularly petty and brutal. Is this a portrait of a marriage in crisis, or the most sophisticated game of torture you've ever witnessed? Director Margaret Harvey delivers a fresh and unique vision of this classic in a captivating new production from State Theatre Company South Australia.
Nothing good happens after 3am...
CREATIVES Writer Edward Albee Director Margaret Harvey Set and Costume Designer Ailsa Paterson Lighting Designer Nigel Levings Composer and Sound Designer Andrew Howard Associate Director Anthony Nicola Stage Manager Bridget Samuel Assistant Stage Manager Isabella Strada CAST George Jimi Bani Nick Rashidi Edward Honey Juanita Navas-Nguyen Martha Susan Prior Understudy Benjin Maza Understudy Isabel Vanhakartano LOCATION Playhouse, QPAC Russell St, South Brisbane DURATION 3 hours and 15 minutes, including two intervals. WARNINGS This play contains adult themes, including depictions of domestic violence. It also contains a prop gun and the use of herbal cigarettes. We understand the themes may be triggering for some people. If you have any concerns about the content of the play, we encourage you to contact the Box Office. If you or someone you know needs information or support, please contact: 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 | Lifeline 13 11 14 The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.
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I acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people, the traditional custodians of the land, waters and sky of where we are presenting this work to you. And I pay my deepest respect to all of their elders past and present. Margaret Harvey Director
As a First Nations woman of Saibai Island blood and English heritage, I cannot ignore the lens through which I view this work. Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a scalding vitriolic commentary on the state of America in the early 1960s. At times dark, there are also humorous moments. But what does this almost 60 year old play say about the time we’re living in now? By suggesting setting this story here on Australian soil what comes to fruition is the state of a nation — there is an alignment with the socio-politics that has permeated this nation state. We have these intersecting power dynamics that reframes the writer’s original themes of the work and re-interrogatesan audience’s perception of the work. Colour-conscious casting was at the forefront of my mind when breathing new life into Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. At the same time, race is just one aspect of every character’s identity, and is conveyed alongside other aspects like class, gender and age. I’ve simply chosen
to make race explicit rather than implicit through colour-conscious casting. Race is a social construct, that promotes social and political hierarchies and power relations. While we have insightful and ultra-talented BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) playwrights investigating and exploring themes around race politics and identity there is another layer to extract when we move race dynamics to the foreground in classics of the western canon, just by simply casting actors who are BIPOC. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is essentially about who’s afraid of living a life without false allusions. Australia is at a crossroads and the political paralysis that has gripped this country on issues of immigrants and asylum seekers, environment, sexual politics and Indigenous issues will not make it all go away, it is only exacerbating the historical untruths this country is built on. So who’s afraid of the truth? — Margaret Harvey
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Jimi Bani, Susan Prior, Rashidi Edward
Rashidi Edward, Jimi Bani
Juanita Navas-Nguyen, Rashidi Edward
Margaret Harvey
FROM OUR PRODUCTION PARTNER Griffith University is delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our partnership with Queensland Theatre in 2022. The future of the arts in Queensland is led by local talent, and we’re immensely proud of the contribution Griffith University makes to the cultural life of Queensland through relationships with major arts organisations. The partnership began 20 years ago with production sponsorship, a tradition we continue with this season of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Queensland Theatre now provides our students with the opportunity to expand on their tertiary learning and create a new level of professional development. Through partnerships such as this, our students
build comprehensive skills and attributes that contribute significantly to their learning. Griffith graduates can now be seen in productions across Queensland, Australia and on the international stage. We’re also pleased to be expanding our relationship through the sponsorship of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award 2022–23, the richest playwriting prize in the country. We wish Queensland Theatre well for this season of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and for all their endeavours throughout 2022. Professor Scott Harrison Pro Vice Chancellor (Arts, Education and Law) Griffith University
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Edward Albee Writer Edward Albee became a force in the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s, writing short plays that not onlyusedexperimentallanguageand form, but also confronted sensitive cultural issues. Although his frank dialogue and provocative topics disturbed some critics, his body of work — which has been described as confrontational, uncompromising, controversial and elliptical — has expanded the landscape of American theatre. His continual exploration has influenced generations of theatre artists, and his perseverance has also been rewardedwithnumerouscriticalawards,includingthree Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (A Delicate Balance, 1966; Seascape, 1974; Three Tall Women, 1991), Tony awards for Best Play for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963) and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002), the Kennedy CenterCommendationforLifetimeAchievement(1996) and the National Medal of Arts (1996). In 1959, his one-act play The Zoo Story made him a well-known playwright, first in Europe (the play premiered in Berlin) and then in America. Albee's ascendance to the top ranks of American theatre was further assured with the success of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which was his first full-evening piece and also his Broadway debut (his other plays had been produced off-Broadway). The play adapted into a film directed by Mike Nichols in 1966, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Some of Albee's other significant works are The Death of Bessie Smith (1960), The Sandbox (1960), The American Dream (1961), Tiny Alice (1964), Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968), All Over (1971), The Lady from Dubuque (1980), Marriage Play (1987) and The Play About the Baby (1998). Edward Albee died in 2018 at the age of 88 and is remembered as one of the foremost playwrights of his generation.
Margaret Harvey Director
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: Malthouse Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland; Cairns Indigenous Art Fair: Woer Wayepa (co-creator); MelbourneInternationalArtsFestival: My Lover’s Bones (co-devisor); ILBIJERRI Theatre Company: Tiddalik The Thirsty Frog, Body Armour. As Assistant Director: Circus Oz: But Wait There’s More. Short Film: Ubuzima Bushasha – New Life, The Hunter. Television: Our Stories Our Way. Positions: Co-Director, The Jo Ze Sparks. Training: PhD (Caring for Saibai Island Stories), Monash University.
Ailsa Paterson Set and Costume Designer
Queensland Theatre: The 39 Steps (with State Theatre Company South Australia). Other credits: As Set and Costume Designer: State Theatre Company South Australia: Ripcord, Gaslight, Jasper Jones, End of the Rainbow, Creditors, Sense and Sensibility, Switzerland, Romeo and Juliet, Mendelssohn’s Dream (with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra), Beckett Triptych (Footfalls, Eh Joe, Krapp’s Last Tape), The Importance of Being Earnest, Hedda Gabler, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, War Mother, The Ham Funeral, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Price, The Cripple of Inishmaan; Patch Theatre: Yo Diddle Diddle, Cranky Bear; Slingsby: Songs for Those Who’ve Come Across the Seas, Emil and the Detectives, Mouse, Bird and Sausage, Ode to Nonsense; Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Vigil, You, Me and the Bloody Sea; Restless: Debut 5, Naturally; State Opera of SA: Cloudstreet, Dido and Aeneas; OzAsia Festival: The Streets; Ensemble: Other Desert Cities, Seminar, Skylight. As Costume Designer: State Theatre Company South Australia: The Boy Who Talked to Dogs (with Slingsby), Betrayal, A Doll’s House, Things I Know to be True, Little Bird, The Seagull, Three Sisters. As Associate Costume Designer: State Theatre Company South Australia: Hibernation. Ailsa worked in costume The Boy from Oz Arena Spectacular, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Musical, High School Musical. Film: The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, Ten Empty. Television: The Straits, LAID, Underbelly – A Tale of Two Cities, Underbelly – The Golden Mile, Blue Water High. Awards: 2011 Mike Walsh Fellowship. Training: Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design), NIDA.
Nigel Levings Lighting Designer
Queensland Theatre: Hydra, Toy Symphony, A Cheery Soul, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other credits: Over 580 productions as Lighting Designer. Broadway, Opera Zurich, Welsh National Opera, Opera Australia, Edinburgh Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company South Australia, Belvoir St, Brink, Royal Opera House, Washington Opera, Dallas Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Korean National Opera. Awards: Tony Award – Best Lighting Design La Boheme; Outer Circle Critics’ Awards – Outstanding Lighting Design The King and I; Dora Award – Outstanding Lighting Design Billy Budd.
Andrew Howard Composer and Sound Designer
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: State Theatre Company South Australia: Hibernation, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, Euphoria, The Boy Who Talked to Dogs (with Slingsby), Ripcord, Gaslight, Dance Nation, Jasper Jones, End of the Rainbow, Animal Farm, The Gods Of Strangers, That Eye, The Sky, Terrestrial, After Dinner, In The Club, Vale, Macbeth, A Doll’s House, 1984 (as Australian Associate Sound Designer), Sista Girl, Machu Picchu, This Is Where We Live, Kryptonite, Maggie Stone, Babyteeth, Random, The Kreutzer Sonata, Romeo and Juliet, Knives in Hens, Attempts On Her Life; Windmill Theatre Co: Helly’s Magic Cup, Grug, Nyuntu Ngali, Fugitive, School Dance, The Story Thieves, Girl Asleep; State Theatre Company South Australia/Windmill Theatre Co: Rumpelstiltskin, Pinocchio; The Border Project: Despoiled Shore, Medeamaterial, Landscape with Argonauts, The War, Please Go Hop!, Highway Rock 'n' Roll Disaster, Trouble On Planet Earth, Disappearance; Floogle: One Long Night in The Land of Nod, The Homecoming; Flying Penguin Productions: The Birthday Party, Blackbird; Junglebean: Boxing Day Test; Patch Theatre: Little Green Tractor. Positions: Resident Sound Designer, State Theatre Company South Australia.
Anthony Nicola Associate Director
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: State Theatre Company South Australia/ ActNow Theatre: Decameron 2.0; RUMPUS: Forgiveness; Flinders Drama Centre: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Positions: Resident Director, State Theatre Company South Australia. Training: Directing, Flinders Drama Centre (First Class Honours and a University Medal).
Juanita Navas-Nguyen, Rashidi Edward
Bridget Samuel Stage Manager
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: As Stage Manager: State Theatre Company South Australia: Hibernation, Euphoria, After Dinner, The Comedy Of Errors, In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Top Girls, The Glass Menagerie, The Ham Funeral, The Misanthrope; Bell Shakespeare: Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Much Ado about Nothing; State Opera South Australia: Moby Dick, La Sonnambula, Carmen, Hansel and Gretel, Pearl Fishers, Aida, Tales of Hoffman, Flying Dutchman, Girl of the Golden West, Rigoletto; Adelaide Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozart’s Requiem, Breaking the Waves, Two Feet, Zizanie, Le Grand Macabre; Brink Productions: Thursday. As Assistant Stage Manager: State Theatre Company South Australia: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Maestro. As Props Buyer: State Theatre Company South Australia: The Memory of Water, Entertaining Mr Sloane. Training: Adelaide College of the Arts.
Isabella Strada Assistant Stage Manager
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: As Assistant Stage Manager: State Theatre Company South Australia: Hibernation. As Stage Manager: Park Theatre: Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You; Café de Paris. Positions: General/ Technical Manager, The Playground Theatre. Training: WAAPA.
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Jimi Bani George
Queensland Theatre: Othello, Our Town, Hedda, My Name Is Jimi. Other credits: Belvoir: Title And Deed, Peter Pan, The Sapphires, Yibiyung; Barbican Theatre London: Shadow King; Sydney Theatre Company: Storm Boy, Romeo and Juliet; Malthouse Theatre: Shadow King, The Dragon; JUTE Theatre Company/Lone Star Productions: Half & Half; Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Sapphires (Korea tour), Jandamarra; Deckchair Theatre: Krakouer!; WAAPA: UnAustralia, Love & Human Remains, The Country Remains, The Winter’s Tale, Stories From The Suburban Road, Three Sisters, Dream Pay. Film: A Thin Black Line. Television: Black Comedy, Blue Water Empire, Ready for This, The People Speak, Redfern Now, Mabo, The Straits, R.A.N (Remote Area Nurse). Awards: Equity Ensemble Awards – Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Television or Miniseries Mabo; BOFA Awards – Best Actor Mabo, The Straits; Deadly Awards – Male Actor of the Year Mabo, The Straits. Training: WAAPA.
Rashidi Edward Nick
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: State Theatre Company South Australia: Hibernation, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, Sense & Sensibility, In The Club; Theatre Republic: Lines; Adelaide Festival: Allope; Essential Theatre: Romeo and Juliet 2021. Film: 2067. Television: Rabbit, F**king Adelaide, Akoni, Displaced, Speed, Run Away Moon, My Life is Murder, Preacher. Training: Adelaide College of the Arts.
Juanita Navas-Nguyen Honey
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: AKA Productions/ Windmill Theatre Co: Bluey’s Big Play; Adelaide College of the Arts: A Bright New Boise, A Doll’s House Darlinghurst Nights, Titus Andronicus, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Training: Advanced Diploma of Acting, Adelaide College of the Arts.
Susan Prior Martha
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Othercredits:MalthouseTheatre: Bliss, Venus & Adonis, Wolf Lullaby; Belvoir: Bliss, Is This Thing On?, Small and Tired; Melbourne Theatre Company: The Distance; Sydney/Broadway NY: The Present; Sydney/London’s West End: Suddenly Last Summer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Riflemind; Sydney Theatre Company: Our Town, King Lear, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Jungle; Bell Shakespeare: King Lear, Venus & Adonis. Film: Ascendant, Book Week, Rising Wolf, The Second, Jasper Jones, The Rover, Not Suitable for Children, Animal Kingdom, A Cold Summer (cowriter), Aim High in Creation, Suburban Mayhem, Idiot Box, Heaven’s Burning, A Wreck, A Tangle, Careless Love, View from Greenhaven. Television: Aftertaste, Glitch, Les Norton, Frayed, The Gloaming, Riot, Safe Harbour, Top of the Lake, Rake, The Other Guy, The Commons, The Moth Effect, Doctor Doctor, Puberty Blues, Love Child. Awards: AACTA – Best Supporting Actress The Rover; Oz Flix Independent – Best Actress Award Book Week; Sydney Theatre Critics’ Award – Best Supporting Actress Small and Tired, The Saviour; Academy Award nomination – Best Live Action Short Film. Training: NIDA.
Benjin Maza Understudy
Queensland Theatre: Othello, Stradbroke Dreamtime. Other credits: Brisbane Powerhouse: SILENCE; La Boite: From Darkness. Events: As Musician: Balairi: Street Serenades (Brisbane Festival), NAIDOC week, Brisbane Powerhouse’s 21st Birthday, Yonder Festival, Isol-Aid Festival, Green Jam (QPAC), Meeanjin Markets. As Performer: eXcelsior: NRL’s All Stars, Sydney Opera House’s Homeground, Woodford Folk Festival, Boomerang Festival at Bluesfest, GC2018 Commonwealth Games.
Isabel Vanhakartano Understudy
Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other credits: Flinders University: Anatomy of a Suicide, Pornography, Di and Viv and Rose, Top Girls, Unity 1918, Country Music, The Shape of Things. Short Film: The Garden, The Groves, Gone.
JuanitaNavas-Nguyen
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Susan Prior, Rashidi Edward
Jimi Bani
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