Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Well, every actor should be afraid, I think, and every director too, because the plank has been raised so impossibly high,  such a long time ago, and embedded forever in the collective memory of generations of theater goers. It seems impossible to even imagine the characters to be anything other than the ones created by those definitive performances of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, right? -

Yet, yesterday we saw a performance of "Virginia Woolf" so very different and so very powerful that the Canon seems to finally recede.

( зачем спектаткли нам играть, коль можно их критиковать. Или хвалить. )