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 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 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 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 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 Collected Plays of Edward Albee Volume 3 written by Edward Albee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 714 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 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 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 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 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 The Collected Plays of Edward Albee written by Edward Albee and published by Duckworth Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the nine plays written by Albee during the period from 1966 through 1977. These range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'A Delicate Balance' to the brilliant and complex short plays 'Box' and 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung', to the scintillating one-act comedy 'Counting the Ways'.
Download or read book The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Volume 2 written by Edward Albee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 680 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 The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee written by Stephen Bottoms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.
Download or read book The Zoo Story written by Edward Albee and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1960 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.
Download or read book Finding the Sun written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Running into each other at the beach, Cordelia and Abigail do all they can to hide their dislike for one another, probably because their husbands, Daniel and Benjamin, aren't doing so well at hiding the fact that they themselves were once in love before ever deciding to marry Cordelia and Abigail instead. Gertrude and Henden (Daniel and Cordelia's parents by previous marriages) play witness to their step-childrens' passions which inevitably excite their own, despite their age. Gertrude acts upon her lusty curiosity by investigating what she imagines to be a sexual relationship between Edmee and Fergus, a mother and son whom she meets at the beach that day. Henden, in his own time, approaches the sixteen-year-old Fergus and finds himself answering the boy's discomforting questions about the nature of Daniel and Benjamin's past relationship. All together, these chance meetings and forays into frankness offer a kaleidoscopic view of passion which spans all the ages of man and woman and all the varieties of love we know.
Download or read book Edward Albee s Seascape written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then, suddenly, they are joined by two sea creatures--lizards who have de
Download or read book Edward Albee written by Toby Silverman Zinman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Peter and Jerry: "Homelife" and The zoo story -- The zoo story -- The death of Bessie Smith -- The sandbox -- The American dream -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Tiny Alice -- A delicate balance -- Box and quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung -- All over -- Seascape -- Listening -- Counting the ways: a vaudville -- The lady from Dubuque -- The man who had three arms -- Finding the sun -- Marriage play -- Tall women -- Fragments -- The play about the baby -- The goat or, who is Sylvia? -- Occupant -- Knock! knock! who's there!? -- Bibliography -- Chronology of plays.
