Whose Afraid of virgnia woolf

the song

Who’s afraid of virginia woolf, virginia woolf,, virginia Woolf - 5, 12, 46, 128 (last page)

martha - angry - wont talk

Martha: I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

george - martha doesn’’t want to talk about it

George: martha doesn’t want to talk about it… him. Martha is sorry she brought it up… him.

george - sprung a leak

‘George: you’ve already sprung a leak… [martha speaks]...about the apple of our eye… the sprout… the little bugger [spits it out]... our son

george - son - furniture

a ‘hes a… comfort, a bean bag’

george - killing myth of son

‘...our… son… is… dead’ - 96 Then ‘george: [cementing it in his mind] our son is… dead… and martha doesn’t know’

martha acting like a child

• Martha (imitating a child): im firsty - 7 

• ‘Martha: Cmon over here and give your mommy a big sloppy kiss’ - 7 

• Martha [a sleepy child]: no more games - 111

George’s reaction to Honey not wanting children

‘And you, you simpering bitch… you don’t want children?

name of setting

new carthage

george and martha describing the birth

George: oh martha, no. you laboured… how you laboured / martha: it was an easy birth… once it had been… accepted, relaxed into’

martha - wanting children

Martha: and i had wanted a child… oh how i had wanted a child.

george - only talks about the child when he’s alone

George [to them all]: i didnt want to talk about him at all.. I would have been perfectly happy not to discuss the topic at all… I never want to talk about it. / martha: yes you do / George: when we’re alone maybe

george and martha - we

Nick (tp george, quietly): you couldn’t have… any? / George: we couldn’t / martha (a hint of communion in this): we couldn’t

george - pronoun slippage

it… him

ending statements from george and marha - time

george: it was time / martha: was it?

ending topic shift

i’m cold

george’s final paternal command

home to bed, children