Martha also reveals the truth about George's creative writing escapades: he had tried to publish a novel about a boy who accidentally killed both of his parents (with the implication that the deaths were actually murder), but Martha's father would not let it be published. After they rejoin the women in the house, Martha and Nick dance suggestively. George and Nick discuss the possibility of having children and eventually argue and insult each other. The following summer, the friend accidentally killed his father while driving, was committed to an asylum, and never spoke again. This friend was laughed at for ordering "bergin". George tells Nick about a time he went to a gin mill with some boarding school classmates, one of whom had accidentally killed his mother by shooting her. As they talk about their wives, Nick says Honey had a " hysterical pregnancy".
Traditionally, " Walpurgisnacht" is the name of an annual witches' meeting (satiric in the context of the play). Nick and Honey become increasingly unsettled and, at the end of the act, Honey runs to the bathroom to vomit, having had too much to drink. After this scare, Martha's taunts continue, and George reacts violently by breaking a bottle. During the telling, George appears with a gun and fires at Martha, but an umbrella pops out. Martha tells an embarrassing story about how she humiliated him with a sucker punch in front of her father. Martha taunts George aggressively, and he retaliates with his usual passive aggression. The younger couple is first embarrassed and later enmeshed. As the four drink, Martha and George engage in scathing verbal abuse of each other in front of Nick and Honey. The guests arrive-Nick, a biology professor (who Martha thinks teaches math), and his wife, Honey. After they return home from a faculty party, Martha reveals she has invited a young married couple she met at the party over for a drink. George is an associate professor of history and Martha is the daughter of the president of the college where George teaches. George and Martha engage in dangerous emotional games. The film adaptation was released in 1966, written by Ernest Lehman, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis. It is frequently revived on the modern stage. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play. The title is a pun on the song " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (1933), substituting the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf. The play is in three acts, normally taking a little less than three hours to perform, with two 10-minute intermissions. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962.