John Baker’s Blog

We were at the Manchester Royal Exchange yesterday to watch George and Martha strip each other of the individual and collective illusions embedded in the long night of their twenty-three-year-old marriage.
We knew it was a good play, but this production also has a great cast. Barbara Marten is wonderful as Martha, swinging wildly, like a [...]

Albee’s first job was writing continuity dialogue for a radio station. After leaving home to settle in Greenwich Village he held a variety of jobs - including three years as a Western Union messenger. The jobs supplemented a trust from his grandmother and were chosen because they were dead ends and would [...]