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Three Tall Women
[Paperback - 1995]
edward albee
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Drama
Additional Category: Relationship - Women Studies
Publisher: Plume | ISBN: 9780452274006 | Pages: 128
Shipping Weight: .113 | Dimensions: 5.3 x .38 x 8 inches

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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.

About the Author

Noted American playwrightEdward Franklin Albeeexplored the darker aspects of human relationships in plays likeWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1962) andThree Tall Women(1991), which won his third Pulitzer Prize.People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, includingThe Zoo Story,The SandboxandThe American Dream.He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such asJean Genet,Samuel Barclay Beckett, andEugène Ionesco. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winnerPaula Vogelcredits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with helping to reinvent the postwar theater in the early 1960s. Dedication of Albee to continuing to evolve his voice — as evidenced in later productions such asThe Goat or Who Is Sylvia?(2000) — also routinely marks him as distinct of his era.Albee described his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."

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