Relationships, love, romantic entanglements – there are few places that we see these themes played out more clearly than on stage. Theaters in Germany are running productions this fall that ask who to love, and when, and most importantly, how?

One of the last refuges, people say, is the institution of marriage. At Munich's Residenztheater, theater goers can watch Edward Albee’s famous “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” depicting verbal slaughter at a dinner party. It was excellently staged by Jürgen Gosch at Berlin's Deutsches Theater in 2004, but the new version promises great things.

The Residenz Theater's director Martin Kušej, who works with opera as well as theater, lets his actors throw themselves at the play, and bring out with brutal clarity what Mr. Albee proposed in an interview with Catch magazine in 1981: relationships are a way to attack.

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