George and Martha, a middle-aged academic couple, invite a younger couple over after a party and proceed to destroy each other with words. Albee wrote this at thirty-four, and it ran for over a year on Broadway, too savage for the Pulitzer committee that year. The play is a drinking game, a war, a exorcism. The fictional child that George and Martha have invented becomes terrifyingly real. The dialogue is vicious and funny and heartbreaking, often in the same line. The younger couple watches in horror as their hosts perform their marriage. By morning, something has changed. Something has been killed.