The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Sakina Karimjee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
  • Production: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
  • Company: Theatre by the Lake
  • Venue: Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Studio Theatre
  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Edward Albee
  • Directed by: Stefan Escreet
  • Lighting Design by: Pete Bull
  • Costume Design by: Sakina Karimjee
  • Set designed by: Sakina Karimjee
  • Design © Sakina Karimjee
Set on the campus of a New England College in 1962, the action takes place in the home of George and Martha during one long blistering and brutal evening. I wanted the design to show them trapped in their stuffy, faded academic mess surrounded by paper work, books and dirty gin glasses.