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George and Martha are a middle-aged couple. Martha’s father is the college president, and George is a history professor. Martha met Nick and Honey, a young couple, at a faculty party earlier in the evening and invited them over for drinks. Throughout the night, George and Martha have been trading passive-aggressive barbs, with Martha mocking George for his unrealized potential and various failed pursuits. Martha has been telling Nick and Honey about her courtship with George, who she presumed
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Start: Martha: But then George came along…along came George.
George: (Reentering with liquor) And along came George, bearing hooch. What are you doing now, Martha?
Martha: I’m telling a story. Sit down…you’ll learn something.
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End: George: I warn you.
Martha: You what?
George: I warn you.
Nick: Do you really think we have to go through…?
Martha: I stand warned!
Citation: Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dramatists Play Service, 2005, pp. 39-40.
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