Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup to star in West End production of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

Albee's 1962 play follows married couple Martha and George, who live on an American college campus. When they invite new professor Nick and his wife Honey to their home for some after-party drinks, the young couple finds themselves pulled into Martha and George's toxic games, sending the night spiralling towards a brutal confrontation with reality.

Gillian Anderon will star as Martha and Billy Crudup will star as George, with Josh Dylan playing Nick and Phoebe Horn playing Honey. Marianne Elliot will direct, with James Farncombe as lighting designer, Ian Dickinson as sound designer, and Miriam Buether as designer.

Anderson is best known for playing Agent Dana Scully on the hit series X-Files, and most recently played Jean Milburn on Netflix show Sex Education. Onstage, she played Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic in 2014, and Margo Channing in All About Eve in 2019. Crudup, star of the Apple TV series The Morning Show, made his West End in 2024 in one-man-show Harry Clarke, and recently played Will Kane in the stage adaptation of the classic western High Noon. Elliott is due to direct the upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George at the Barbican next summer.

Elliott said, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play of astonishing emotional precision—brutal, witty, and deeply human. What excites me most is the opportunity to explore the volatility and tenderness at its core with two actors as fearless and intelligent as Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup."

Anderson said, "I've wanted to play Martha for decades." The iconic role was first played on Broadway by Uta Hagen in 1962, on screen in 1966 by Elizabeth Taylor, and in a 1996 London revival by Diana Rigg.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play at @sohoplace from 21st September to 19th December.

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