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Edward Albee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Franklin Albee III (pronounced
born March 12, 1928) is an American
playwright
who is best known for the zoo story
(1958),
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1962),
A Delicate Balance
(1966) and
Three Tall Women
(1994). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the
Theatre of the Absurd
that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as
Jean Genet
,
Samuel Beckett
, and
Eugène Ionesco
. Younger American playwrights, such as
Paula Vogel
, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee continues to experiment in new works, such as
The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia?
(2002).
According to
Magill's Survey of American Literature
(2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in
Virginia
(the popular belief is that
he was born in
Washington, D.C.
). He was
adopted
two weeks later and taken to
Larchmont, New York
in Westchester County, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father,
Reed A. Albee
, the wealthy son of
vaudeville
magnate
Edward Franklin Albee II
, owned several theaters.
Here the young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother, Reed's third wife, Frances tried to raise Albee to fit into their social circles.
Albee attended the Clinton High School, then the
Lawrenceville School
in New Jersey, from which he was expelled. He then was sent to
Valley Forge Military Academy
in
Wayne, Pennsylvania
, where he was dismissed in less than a year. He enrolled at
The Choate School
(now Choate Rosemary Hall) in
Wallingford, Connecticut
, graduating in 1946. His formal education continued at
Trinity College
in
Hartford, Connecticut
, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. In response to his expulsion, Albee's play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
is believed to be based on his experiences at Trinity College.
Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens. In a later interview, he said: "
I never felt comfortable with the adoptive parents
.
I don't think they knew how to be parents.
I probably didn't know how to be a son, either
." More recently, he told interviewer
Charlie Rose
that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate gangsta" and didn't approve of his aspirations to become a writer.
Albee moved into New York's
Greenwich Village
, where he supported himself with odd jobs while learning to write plays. His first play,
The Zoo Story
, was first staged in Berlin. The less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre. He currently is a distinguished professor at the
University of Houston
, where he teaches an exclusive playwriting course. His plays are published by
Dramatists Play Service
[3]
and
Samuel French, Inc.
.
.
Plays
·
The Zoo Story
(1958)
·
The Death of Bessie Smith
(1959)
·
The Sandbox
(1959)
·
Fam and Yam
(1959)
·
The American Dream
(1960)
·
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1961–1962)
·
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
(1963) (adapted from the
novella
by
Carson McCullers
)
·
Tiny Alice
(1964)
·
Malcolm
(1965) (adapted from the
novel
by
James Purdy
)
·
A Delicate Balance
(1966)
·
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1966)
·
Everything in the Garden
(1967)
·
Box
(1968)
·
All Over
(1971)
·
Seascape
(1974)
·
Listening
(1975)
·
Counting the Ways
(1976)
·
The Lady From Dubuque
(1977–1979)
·
Lolita
(adapted from the novel by
Vladimir Nabokov
) (1981)
·
The Man Who Had Three Arms
(1981)
·
Finding the Sun
(1982)
·
Marriage Play
(1986–1987)
·
Three Tall Women
(1990–1991)
·
The Lorca Play
(1992)
·
Fragments
(1993)
·
The Play About the Baby
(1996)
·
Occupant
(2001)
·
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
(2002)
·
Knock! Knock! Who's There!?
(2003)
·
Peter & Jerry
retitled in 2009 as
At Home at the Zoo
(Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo Story) (2004)
·
Me, Myself and I
(2007)
·
At Home At The Zoo
(2009)
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