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Who’s afraid of a perfect revival?

Settling in to watch Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , the audience arranged around a low-slung, circular stage at one of the West End’s most intimate theatres, feels appropriately like taking a ringside seat at a boxing match. Fractious husband and wife George and Martha – immortalised by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1966 film version, and played here by Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson – seem somehow to wage their war of…

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