Edward Albee

A celebrated weaver and textile designer, Jack Lenor Larsen is internationally known for the artwork he creates. This is the first book to document and celebrate his life as its own work of art, through his home and extensive gardens in the Hamptons - Longhouse Reserve. Longhouse's gardens are open to the public; visitors have the opportunity to experience Larsen's contemporary sculpture collection, featuring works by diverse artists such as Sol LeWitt, Dale Chihuly and Yoko Ono, as well as the grounds themselves - ever changing, subject to seaons and Jack's creative desire to experiment and change. The lush color photography of Molly Chappellet, a longtime friend of Longhouse, captures the house and gardens through many design iterations and seasons. Guiding texts throughout the book articulate Larsen's philosophies about creating art and living life fully. A book for fans of the garden and of contemporary art.

"Albee’s perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama … dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to proffer it is a species of bestiality far more abhorrent than the sexual kind." Variety On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn celebration to tragedy. Edward Albee's black comedy offers a fascinating look at the limits liberal society can be pushed to, and asks the audience to question their beliefs, to examine their own bigoted views and reconsider their judgement of matters that may or may not be considered socially taboo.Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? is a hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love.This Modern Classics edition features a new introduction by Toby Zinman.

Nattsvart komedi och modern klassikerI Edward Albees klassiska nattsvarta komedi Vem är rädd för Virginia Woolf? möter vi George och Martha (namngivna efter presidentmakarna Washington) och några halvfrämlingar de plockat upp på en fest. De står inför en brinnande natt av oförglömliga smädelser - och livsfarliga lekar. Vid nattens ände väntar den knappt uthärdliga klimax som chockerat generationer av läsare och åskådare sedan dramats urpremiär i New York 1962.Titeln är enligt författaren själv en formel för att utmana vem som helst att se »livet minus alla falska illusioner«. Edward Albees Vem är rädd för Virginia Woolf? hör till den moderna amerikanska litteraturens största klassiker.Här i bokform på svenska för första gången på hela 53 år i Sven Barthels klassiska översättning. EDWARD ALBEE [f. 1928] är en amerikansk författare och dramatiker. Hans tidiga dramer räknas som den amerikanska litteraturens viktigaste bidrag till den absurda teatern i Jean Genets, Samuel Becketts och Eugène Ionescos efterföljd. Mest berömt är Vem är rädd för Virginia Woolf? [Who' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962], som spelades 664 kvällar efter premiären, och som filmatiserades 1966 i regi av Mike Nichols. Dramat har återuppförts på Broadway ett flertal gånger, senast 2012.»Den finns en stark känsla av fara i Edward Albees verk, och man vet aldrig riktigt vad som ska hända härnäst. Jag tror att en av de viktigaste ingredienserna i hans verk är ofoget.« | Harold Pinter»Det verbala sparrandet och våldet i Edward Albees tidiga mästerverk är häpnadsväckande, rentav skrämmande, och ändå så bittert, fruktansvärt roligt.« | The Times

Edward Albee's play A Delicate Balance won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play revolves around wealthy middle-aged couple Agnes and Tobias, who 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. A Delicate Balance has enjoyed many stunning revivals, including a Broadway production in 1996, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival, and another at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2011.

For the first time in one volume, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo collects Homelife and The Zoo Story. "An essential and heartening experience . . . If Homelife is an openhanded slap, The Zoo Story is a gut punch with a closed fist. Edward Albee is a voice unparalleled in American theater." --New York Times More than 50 years after penning The Zoo Story, master playwright Edward Albee wrote a prequel to this classic. Homelife contains the events in Peter's life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter's wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park.

Edward Albee Full Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 4 female Interior Set This Pulitzer Prize winner enjoyed a stunning Broadway revival in 1996 with George Gizzard, Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch. Wealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends 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' household. Winner of the 1996 Drama Desk and Award, Best Revival. "Powerful...A beautiful play filled with humor and compassion, and touched with poetry...[with] the stature and eloquence of a classic."-New York Daily News "A brilliant play."-New York Post "An evening of theatrical fireworks."-The New York Times

Characters: 1m, 1f / Dramatic Comedy Unapologetically flamboyant, New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was one marked by intrepid artistic triumphs as well as deep inner turmoil. In Edward Albee's Occupant, both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. From her unique vantage point beyond the grave, Nevelson answers his queries with a clarity born of the dist

Neil Wechsler’s Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. Grenadine is the fantastical story of a man’s quest for love in the company of three devoted friends. Albee writes, “I found it highly original. . . . The questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play stretched my mind.” About the Yale Drama SeriesYale University Press, the Yale Repertory Theatre, and the David Charles Horn Foundation are proud co-sponsors of this major competition to support emerging playwrights. Each year’s winner receives the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Repertory Theatre. For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit yalebooks.com.

The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1 includes eight plays from 1958-1965 by "a major American playwright who helped change the shape of drama here and abroad" (New York Times). Edward Albee's plays featured here range from the four brilliant one-act plays with which he exploded on the New York theater scene--The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream--to his early masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Also included are two adaptations from notable American novels The Ballad of the Sad Caf and Malcolm and Albee's mysteriously fascinating Tiny Alice. This book represents one of the most exciting and bold periods in the career of one of America's most popular and imaginative playwrights.

A social event becomes a personal challenge for two faculty members and their wives at a small New England college as their inner fears and desires are exposed. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a brilliantly original work of art -- an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire (Newsweek).

When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are drawn as Martha and George drag their guests into their own private hell of a marriage.

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A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.

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.

Der Titel klingt heiter und wie eine bloße Variante des Kinderliedes :Wer hat Angst vor dem bösen Wolf?9 Aber hinter dieser scheinbaren Harmlosigkeit verbirgt sich das Chaos menschlicher Beziehungen. Schauplatz des Dramas ist eine Wohnung, in der sich zwei Ehepaare nach einer Party treffen. Man vertreibt sich die Zeit mit Gesellschaftsspielen, die zum Anlaß der Selbstentblößung werden. Albee geht es dabei um die Aufdeckung menschlicher Illusionen. Er zeichnet mit ebensoviel Wehmut wie Ironie, zugleich messerscharf und doch mitfühlend das Bild des Menschen, dem offenbar alles zum :Glücklichsein9 zur Verfügung steht und der doch nur um so hoffnungsloser allein ist. Carson McCullers schrieb über das von der Kritik als großes leidenschaftliches Theater gefeierte Stück: "Es hat die Leidensgröße eines griechischen Dramas, wildesten Humor und düsteren Glanz."