Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a misunderstood masterpiece
The film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee's play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest. But it is as much about America itselfEdward Albee occasionally expressed exasperation at being forever identified as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "The play," he wrote in a programme note to the 1996 Almeida production, "has hung about my neck like a shining medal of some sort…