VAOVW is an Edward Albee's play which takes place in the 60's of the american society. At the dawn of a Sunday on a campus in the college town of New Carthage, G and M, an unhappy middle-aged married couple, have just came back from a party. G is tired, but M wants to spin the night out and has invited Nick and Honey. The couple is going to drawn their guests into silly and self-destructive games, blurring the frontier btw illusion and reality, revealing confusing facts, which remind the theatre of the absurd. Besides, there are many references to this genre and absurd clichés, which may have not been aimlessly done and may show that Albee is interested in the Absurd. To what extend does the play belong to the theatre of the Absurd?

From the very beginning, M and G are arguing about a Bette Davies's movie. Well, it is not likely to be a common contentious matter but when it comes to persons who have lived together for a long time -like middle-aged married couple – they tend to be bogged down in (the rigours of) a routine, having arguments for nothing, about futile matterss and saying repetitive sentence. G and M keep on quibbling over unimportant details throughout the play. What's being talked about is futile, but Albee particularly focuses on the way the interact with each other...It is clearly absurd : (more than having repetitious and futile arguments,) they never come to an agreement. This kind of behaviour makes it difficult, not to say impossible to make progress. Those discutions -most of the time- end up in a stalemate, which props up a vicious circle, typical element of the theatre of the absurd. G and M exemplify the genre's characteristics : almost 50 years old, they didn't get the life they wanted and lead a destructive relationship. G is a marginal history teacher; self-effacing, and not particularly ambitious. M is hysterical, “loud” and “vulgar . They cant stand one another, but need each other. They show a particular complicity, but it goes up