censored work you've done
is also the most famous:
who's afraid of virginia woolf?
yeah, that was a fairly
early play, my fifth play,
and i ran into a bunch
of trouble with that one.
after the success of the play
in new york--
in english, by the way--
they decided to do it
in london.
and back in those days,
there was an organization
in london
called the royal chamberlain's
office,
which was there
to look over the script
of any play
to be done in great britain
and censor it
on the odd assumption
that her majesty might want
to go to the theater.
[laughter]
um...her sister
went a lot.
and so i went to the lord
chamberlain's office,
where they had read the play
and informed me very quietly--
nice guy
with a necktie and an english
accent and everything...
[laughter]
said that they had
75 objections to my text.
i said,
"oh, dear, really?