History of the play Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf is a famous absurd comedy written by Edward Albee. It was first performed at the Ocatobar in New York and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for the 1962-63 season. In American society this accomplished the great upheaval that was yet to be seen in the future. By the late 1960s, both economically and socially, America was being homogenized through the Cold War, planned suburbs, and fast food culture. Different voices like Albee came into the world in the late 1960s. Author's biography Edward Albee is counted among the most acclaimed and controversial playwrights in the United States. Albee was born on March 12, 1928. He was the adopted son of Frances Albee and Reed. In early childhood he had an introduction to theater and also attended theater performances. Albee attended many private and military schools and briefly enrolled at Trinity College in Connecticut. After his studies he held various jobs for the next few decades. He worked as a writer for WNYC radio, a clerk for an advertising agency and also a record salesman. Albee achieved only limited success, so at the age of thirty he returned to writing plays and made a huge impact on society with his act ona. THE STORY OF THE ZOO (1959). Albee launched his career after the success of THE ZOO STORY and later became more famous with his plays WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, A DELICATE BALANCE and THREE TALL WOMEN. CONTEXT Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? it's not a true drama of the absurd, but we can still capture some elements of it. The opera is a combination of realistic and absurd drama. IT blends elements of taa......middle of paper......expresses the senselessness of the human condition, abandons the use of rational expedients and thought and the latter follows the tradition of the well-made game employing logically constructed reasoning and completely coherent characters. One of its aspects is satire; he criticizes the absurdity of lives lived unaware and unaware of ultimate reality and the death and mechanical meaninglessness of semi-conscious lives. Its goal is to make people aware of the "precarious and mysterious position of man in the universe. It is not a question of ideological considerations or heroic acts, but of the "descent of man into the depths of his personality, of his dreams , fantasies and nightmares. The Theater of the Absurd is a theater of situation versus a theater of sequential events. It does not use psychology, subtlety of characterization and plot in the conventional sense.