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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? On one level, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?is a very literate and sophisticated Jerry Springer Show, a sharply focused study of the disintegration of a marriage. George and Martha are a longtime married couple. He's a history professor at a small New England college whose career is far less glittering than he'd once hoped it would be; she's the daughter of the college president. Of course, Edward Albee is a genius, and his play provides far more than an evening of voyeurism and the self-righteous pleasure of being shocked by the bad behavior of others. The protagonists are fascinatingly complex characters. There's something magnificent about the unbridled rage that surges through their home. The brilliant dialogue sweeps you along for the play's three squirm-inducing hours: torrential, lurid, passionate, high-pitched, occasionally revelatory. Warren Sherrill directs with a sure. respectful hand, evidenced in such details as the real snapdragons in one scene and in the large talents of his cast, whose members find every one of the script's nuances. Presented by Paragon Theatre Company through August 11, Phoenix Theatre, 1124 Santa Fe Drive, 303-300-2210, www.paragontheatre.org. Reviewed July 26.