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| Stretching My Mind |
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| The first collection of Albee's writings on theater, literature, the visual arts, and the political and cultural backgrounds that have defined our times. Albee also explores charged topics such as government repression, censorship in the arts, and cultural literacy. On a more intimate level, he writes about his early home life, discusses in depth his body of work, and shares his perceptive worldviews.
(Source: Carroll and Graf Publishers) |
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
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| Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner star in the Broadway revival of this 1963 Tony-award winning play by Edward Albee. The popular yet controversial show follows one night with George and Martha, whose dinner party for guests Nick and Honey quickly goes south when friendly games bring up hostility and lies. The show originally featured Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen as George and Martha. |
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| The American Dream: And the Zoo Story |
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| Nowhere is Albee's dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story. The story of one of America's most dysfunctional families, The American Dream is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artificial values for real values -- a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its complacent foundations. The Zoo Story is a harrowing depiction of a young man alienated from the human race -- a searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering climax.
(from: back cover, Plume, 1997) |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome. A long night of malicious games, insults, humiliations, betrayals, painful confrontations, and savage witticisms ensues. The secrets of both couples are laid bare and illusions are viciously exposed. When, in a climactic moment, George decides to "kill" the son they have invented to compensate for their childlessness, George and Martha finally face the truth and, in a quiet ending to a noisy play, stand together against the world, sharing their sorrow.
(from: The Merriam Webster Encyclopedia of Literature) |
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Three Tall Women
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| Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards in 1994, Albee's Three Tall Women is a probing portrait of three women -- separate characters on stage in the first act, yet actually the same "everywoman" at different ages in the second act. In scenes charges with wit, pain and laughter, these women lay bare the truths of our lives -- how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die. |
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The Goat or, Who is Sylvia
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| Albee's 2002 Tony Award-winning play, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia, is about an architect who in the same week that he's received an international prize, been awarded a lucrative contract and celebrated his 50th birthday is forced to confess to his wife and son that he's involved in a relationship that will probably destroy his marriage, his career and his life.
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