<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Drama </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Setting </Th> <Td> Martha and George's New England home </Td> </Tr> <P> Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in 1962 . It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle - aged couple, Martha and George . Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship . </P> <P> The play is in three acts, normally taking a little less than three hours to perform, with two 10 - minute intermissions . The title is a pun on the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (1933), substituting for the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf . Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play . </P>

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