Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Portraits of marital hell don’t come much more brutal than Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , so you might imagine the last thing a pair of married actors would want to do is risk their own relationship by taking it on.
But, boldly throwing caution to the wind, that’s precisely what Kat Stewart and David Whiteley are doing as the revival of Edward Albee’s 1962 play moves from the tiny 80-seat Red Stitch Theatre in St Kilda to the 800-seat Comedy Theatre next month, thus becoming the first production in the company’s 23-year history to make the giant leap to the commercial main stage. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” says Stewart of the chance to work with her husband for the first time since 2007. “It’s a rare gift,” Whiteley agrees.
“We didn’t think we’d get the chance ever again.” Kat Stewart and David Whiteley met at Red Stitch in 2002. Credit: Simon Schluter The pair met at Red Stitch in 2002, when Whiteley – a founding member of the company – auditioned the young marketing graduate turned aspiring actress.
“They very strategically got me in because then they’d have a publicist,” she jokes. “When I joined there were 12 actors, and we all did everything. We cleaned the toilets and put the posters up in the front o.
