Mireille Enos is Woolf's Honey; Broadway Engagement Begins March 12
By Robert Simonson
08 Jul 2004
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Mireille Enos
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As expected, the little-known Mireille Enos will play Honey in the new Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
She joins Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner as George and Martha, the savage married couple at the center of the play, and David Harbour, as Nick. Harbour and Enos appeared in The Invention of Love together.
Enos can currently be seen Off-Broadway in Sam and Lucy, part of the new Summer Play Festival on Theatre Row.
The Broadway revival will be directed by Anthony Page. The show will have a pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre, beginning Feb. 12 and opening Feb. 16. The first Broadway preview will be on March 12 at a theatre to be named.
John Lee Beatty will design the set. Also part of the design team are costume designer Jane Greenwood, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and sound designer Mark Bennett.
Elizabeth McCann, who has spent a good deal of her late career producing Edward Albee, will again back the playwright, along with Daryl Roth. Her past Albee ventures include The Play About the Baby, Beckett/Albee and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?. The latter won the Tony Award for Best Play. The play also marked the first time McCann, Albee and Irwin worked together; Irwin replaced Bill Pullman in the leading role and received good notices for his work.
Irwin is also a writer. The 2003-04 season of the Signature Theatre Company was dedicated to Irwin's works.
Kathleen Turner, who will play the ferocious, man-eating, drink-guzzling Martha, a character created by Uta Hagen, last appeared on Broadway as another booze-fueled, sexually-voracious character: Mrs. Robinson in the critically lambasted but immensely popular stage version of The Graduate. Prior to that, she graced Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Indiscretions.
David Harbour recently completed a run in Between Us at Manhattan Theatre Club. Harbour has been ubiquitous of late, jumping form one stage to the next. He played Moses John Jackson, the athletic, manly object of young A.E. Housman's affections in Broadway's The Invention of Love in 2001. He then gave a standout performance as a slick operator in the Signature Theatre Company's hit 2003 revival of Lanford Wilson's The Fifth of July. From there, he went on to the Lincoln Center premiere of Jules Fieffer's A Bad Friend and the Public Theater's presentation of Two Noble Kinsmen.
Page is an experienced Albee hand. He has directed London productions of Woolf, A Delicate Balance and The Goat.
The production will be the first Broadway revival of the landmark drama since 1976. That mounting, directed by the playwright, ran 117 performances.
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