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Albee, Edward, 1928-
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Older women -- Drama.
Aging -- Drama.
Mothers and sons -- Drama.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
American drama -- 20th century.
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Albee, Edward, 1928-
Older women -- Drama.
Aging -- Drama.
Mothers and sons -- Drama.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
American drama -- 20th century.
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Three tall women : a play in two acts / Edward Albee.
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Albee, Edward, 1928-
Dutton, c1994.
Call #:
812
.54
A328th
Subjects
Older women -- Drama.
Aging -- Drama.
Mothers and sons -- Drama.
Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
American drama -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780525939603 (hc.)
0525939601 (hc.)
Description:
110 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
Recovering from the brink of death after venting her frustrations about an unjust world, a ninety-two-year-old woman recounts three stages of her painful life, in an award-winning play by the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. American playwright Edward Albee (born in 1928) has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama: for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994).
"Albee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to another, and each faces her travails and disappointments with lots of Albee's trademark bitter wit. In the second act, however, the three women become representatives of the same person at different ages (26, 52, late 80s), and their bickering talk becomes a touching internal colloquy about life, love, and the inevitability of loss. Not since Beckett's brooding meditation Krapp's Last Tape has a playwright dealt so movingly with the subject of disappointment, aging, and death. Jack Helbig."--From Booklist.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, 1994.
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