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Ephrata's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' is a long but memorable bender

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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20050821
Author:Laura Knowles / Theater Review

Laura Knowles Remember that commercial about the fried egg and what can happen to your brain on drugs? Well, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" might just make a highly effective commercial on what can happen to a marriage when it's fueled by booze.

A very long commercial.

Ephrata Performing Art Center's production of Edward Albee's 1962 examination of a disintegrating marriage is at once deeply harrowing, cleverly funny and thoroughly exhausting.

At first it seems odd that there are two intermissions. As it turns out, those intermissions offer a much-needed respite from the schizophrenic ...

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