“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” conjures images of the 1966 film where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were behaving rather than acting as they swilled alcohol and disemboweled each other with Edward Albee’s rapier prose. However, put aside Dick and Liz and embrace instead Andrew Weems and Deborah Hedwall as George and Martha as director Ethan McSweeney brings Albee’s tale of New England’s most dysfunctional couple to Center Stage.

Scenic director Lee Savage has cleverly substituted large glass windows on wires for a curtain, raising and lowering them to signal the start and end of each act. There are windows, but no walls, and the effect, as the play is performed in-the-round in the intimate Head Theater, is to grant the audience X-ray vision. We see everything — George’s bookcase and desk, the half-filled glasses, the door chimes, and a three-hour operation.