Child's Play.

Child's Play is a book review of "Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriages, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Philip Gefter. The review discusses the play and film adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, focusing on the theme of childlessness in marriage. The review explores the characters of George and Martha, who, lacking children, engage in destructive behavior and use a fictional son as a substitute for the life they could have had. The review also examines the making of the film and the dynamics between the cast and crew. However, the reviewer disagrees with Gefter's analysis that the troubled marriage in the play is representative of all marriages, arguing that the absence of a child is a specific cause of George and Martha's unhappiness. [Extracted from the article]