News about Edward Albee

PATRICK MARMION: Edward Albee's notorious marital slugfest was a long-buried mystery to me. Every performance of his 1962 drama about a middle-aged couple serving each other seven servings of hell seems to be a theatrical task force: an archaeological expedition attempting to solve the mystery's enigma. Elizabeth McGovern (Lady Cora in Downton) and Dougray Scott, the Scottish actor known as Ray Lennox in Irvine Welsh's ITV series Crime, now has the mission in Bath. Martha McGovern plays Martha, the dipso daughter of a wealthy university president. Scott plays her defeated, no less boozy history professor husband. They lured a young, not yet jaundiced couple to participate in their bizarre mind games, in which they taunt and mock each other.