Three Plays By Edward Albee
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Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780715637418 |
This volume contains the eight plays written by Albee during his first decade as a playwright, from 1958 to 1965. These range from the four one-act plays with which he exploded on the New York theatre scene in 1958-59 to his early masterpiece 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' in 1961-62.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 1995-09-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0452274001 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA Recently revived on Broadway in a production directed by Joe Mantello, starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf Earning a Pulitzer and Best Play awards from the Evening Standard, Critics Circle, and Outer Critics Circle, among others, when it premiered, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee’s frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit, pain, and laughter, and his observations tell us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. But it is his probing portrait of the three women that reveals Albee’s genius. Separate characters on stage in the first act, yet actually the same “everywoman” at different ages in the second act, these “tall women” lay bare the truths of our lives—how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die. Edward Albee has given theatergoers, critics, and students of drama reason to rejoice.
Author | : Mel Gussow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476711704 |
In 1960, Edward Albee electrified the theater world with the American premiere of The Zoo Story, and followed it two years later with his extraordinary first Broadway play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Proclaimed as the playwright of his generation, he went on to win three Pulitzer Prizes for his searing and innovative plays. Mel Gussow, author, critic, and cultural writer for The New York Times, has known Albee and followed his career since its inception, and in this fascinating biography he creates a compelling firsthand portrait of a complex genius. The book describes Albee's life as the adopted child of rich, unloving parents and covers the highs and lows of his career. A core myth of Albee's life, perpetuated by the playwright, is that The Zoo Story was his first play, written as a thirtieth birthday present to himself. As Gussow relates, Albee has been writing since adolescence, and through close analysis the author traces the genesis of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and other plays. After his early triumphs, Albee endured years of critical neglect and public disfavor. Overcoming artistic and personal difficulties, he returned in 1994 with Three Tall Women. In this prizewinning play he came to terms with the towering figure of his mother, the woman who dominated so much of his early life. With frankness and critical acumen, and drawing on extensive conversations with the playwright, Gussow offers fresh insights into Albee's life. At the same time he provides vivid portraits of Albee's relationships with the people who have been closest to him, including William Flanagan (his first mentor), Thornton Wilder, Richard Barr, John Steinbeck, Alan Schneider, John Gielgud, and his leading ladies, Uta Hagen, Colleen Dewhurst, Irene Worth, Myra Carter, Elaine Stritch, Marian Seldes, and Maggie Smith. And then there are, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who starred in Mike Nichols's acclaimed film version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The book places Albee in context as a playwright who inspired writers as diverse as John Guare and Sam Shepard, and as a teacher and champion of human rights. Edward Albee: A Singular Journey is rich with colorful details about this uniquely American life. It also contains previously unpublished photographs and letters from and to Albee. It is the essential book about one of the major artists of the American theater.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1468307509 |
Three acclaimed one-act plays from the early years of the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. With the initial productions of The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream, Albee consolidated his reputation as a brilliant new talent of the New York theater scene. These three plays tackle major themes such as race relations, American family life, and the essence of theater itself—each of which still continue to resonate. Representing the bold and exciting periods in the then-young career of widely considered America’s most popular and imaginative playwrights, this edition is a must-have for theater lovers. “One of the few genuinely great living American dramatists.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Collects the dramatic works of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780822202424 |
THE STORIES: COUNTING THE WAYS. In a series of blackout sketches, He and She probe into the nature of their love for one another. Long married, but aware that time has wrought changes in their relationship, the two spar and thrust at each other
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Collects the dramatic works of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright.
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0822223171 |
When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps
Author | : Edward Albee |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822214205 |
Presents the script of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that illuminates the events of a ninety-two-year-old woman's life while she lies in a stroke-induced coma.