The Play About the Baby
Albee, Edward
ISBN 10: 1585673536 ISBN 13: 9781585673537
Verlag: The Overlook Press, 2003
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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."
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Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.
Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays:A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play,Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays includeThe Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream,Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque,The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play andThe Lorca Play.
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Titel: The Play About the Baby
Verlag: The Overlook Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good