The fun and games of Virginia Woolf

I'm fortunate to have read this play before so reading it a second time helped me understand events a lot more. I love this play because of the deviousness of George and Martha. They obviously have a failed marriage so they take out their problems on innocent people. The night of the faculty party the victims happened to be the new biology professor, Nick, and his wife, Honey. Both of the couples are obvious foils of each other. I think how Albee wanted the audience to see the play was how two direct foils clash with each other. Both have dark secrets in their closet, but everyone does. Starting with Nick and George, Nick is the more successful version. Nick is athletic, good looking, promising in biology, and well put together. George is a failure, old, unhappy, and dealing with Martha. Martha is a full figured, loud, old, privileged, seductive, and an alcoholic. Honey is mousey, small, weak stomached, and less intelligent or witty. They both play on each other since they both clash. The result is the purging of dark secrets. The two most important ones I think are the fabrication of the George and Martha's son and then the truth about George and Martha's marriage. Both reveal alot about how those couples act. It's slightly depressing the whole thing, but Albee was clever and inventive with the entire play. I liked how the play was separated into games and how they got worse and worse with time. Overall, it was an intelligent and interesting play that was a complete page-turner.