Download or read book Edward Albee s The Play about the Baby written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: By turns funny, mysterious and disturbing, THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY concerns a young couple who have just had a baby, and the strange turn of events that transpire when they are visited by an older man and woman.
Download or read book The Play About the Baby written by Edward Albee and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama during his long and distinguished career, Edward Albee is one of America's preeminent playwrights. "The Play About the Baby" is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple-Boy and Girl-have a new baby, whom an older couple-Man and Woman-have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, "If you don't have the wound of a broken heart, how can you know you're alive?" Brutal loss-the loss of a child or childhood self-has been a recurring Albee theme, and Ben Brantley of the "New York Times" summed up the critical reaction to "The Play About the Baby" when he called it a "funny, harrowing dramatic fable . . . as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver."
Download or read book Edward Albee s At Home at the Zoo written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Edward Albee s Marriage Play written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jack comes home from a middling day at the office to quickly announce to his wife, Gillian, that he is leaving her. Suspecting for some time a midlife crisis, Gillian goads Jack about this announcement, forcing him to try it again--going
Download or read book The Collected Plays of Edward Albee written by Edward Albee and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Counting the Ways and Listening written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Everyone s Fine with Virginia Woolf written by Kate Scelsa and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-witted parody of a celebrated American drama, EVERYONE’S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF is, in turns, loving homage and fierce feminist takedown. Kate Scelsa’s incisive and hilarious reinvention of Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? slyly subverts the power dynamics of the original play’s not-so-happy couple. In the end, no one will be left unscathed by the ferocity of Martha’s revenge on an unsuspecting patriarchy.
Download or read book Edward Albee A Singular Journey written by Mel Gussow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Edward Albee s Fragments written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Several people sit together reading proverbs aloud to each other. From these proverbs are prompted stories of each one's past, or musings surrounding lifelong mysteries. Each tries to tell about some incident which they hope will illumin
Download or read book American Dream written by Edward Albee and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. American Dream and Zoo story: two plays
Download or read book Edward Albee s Three Tall Women written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Three Plays by Edward Albee written by Edward Albee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Edward Albee s The Lady from Dubuque written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Three young couples are playing Twenty Questions. The drinks have been flowing, so the mood has gone from good to bad in a very short time. As it happens, the hostess, who has the most abrasive tongue of all, is dying of cancer, and the party e
Download or read book Edward Albee s Occupant written by Edward Albee and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was marked by intrepid triumphs and deep inner turmoil. Both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. The result is a touching, humorous, and honest tribute to a woman who was a pioneer for free-thinking females everywhere, but also stood on her own as one of the 20th century's greatest artistic minds.
Download or read book The Collected Plays of Edward Albee written by Edward Albee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the dramatic works of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright.
Download or read book All Over written by Edward Albee and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reaction of a family to death of one of its members is the central theme of Albee's exploration into the psyche of those individuals most closely involved with the final hours left an ill man.
Download or read book A Delicate Balance written by Edward Albee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors cause trouble for a pair of suburbanites in this Pulitzer Prize–winning play by the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Wealthy middle-aged couple Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when their longtime friends Harry and Edna appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless “fear” has forced them from their own home, these neighbors bring a firestorm of doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsetting the “delicate balance” of Agnes and Tobias’s household . . . In recent years, A Delicate Balance has enjoyed many and new stunning revivals, running now, including a Broadway production in 1996, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival, and another at the Alameida Theatre in London in 2011. “Theatrical fireworks.” —The New York Times
