Photos: Imelda Staunton starts rehearsals for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Images from the first week of rehearsals for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have been released.

They show the cast, which includes Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, preparing for the 13 week run at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Imogen Poots and Luke Treadaway also star in Edward Albee's play, set in an American college, about Martha who invites a new professor and his wife round for after-hours drinks.

Olivier Award winner Staunton will play Martha while Game of Thrones star Hill will play George, her husband.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? runs at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 9 March to 27 May, with previews from 22 February