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by: Edward Albee
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN: 9780452278097
ISBN: 0452278090
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: January 01, 1997
Publisher: Plume
Sales Rank: 260664
Studio: Plume
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Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play--winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play--is now available in a trade paperback edition. A dark comedy about unfulfilled lives, broken promises, and family jealousies, A Delicate Balance has just been revived to triumphant acclaim at Lincoln Center's Plymouth Theatre in New York City.
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Rating: - my favorite Albee play
Edward Albee is best-known for his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a Broadway classic that was made into a film starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. However, this play, A Delicate Balance, is my favorite out of Albee's plays, and I've read nearly all of them. It won Albee the first of his 3 Pulitzer Prizes, and was made into a film starring Katherine Hepburn.
The story focuses on an aging WASP couple, Agnes and Tobias. Agnes' alcoholic sister, Claire, lives ... Read More
Rating:  - Among His Best; My Favorite
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will be the play that is revived again and again over years, like Hellman's "Little Foxes," because middle-aged stars will be asked what they'd like to do and, inevitably, this is the play of choice, but like Hellman's lesser-known "Another Part of the Forest," this play by Albee is his best. It is less flashy, less loud, less dramatic, but it is deeper and more moving. It 'plays' to the women in the audience, I suppose, because Agnes is more interesting of the characters, ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant dialogue, witty, sarcastic, and sad
This is the first of Edward Albee's plays to garner the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. The other two were Seascape and Three Tall Women. Probably his most popular is Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
A Delicate Balance is comprised of brilliant dialogue, mostly short snippets, and some very meaningful longer dialogue. It is dialogue that offers sarcastic humor and provides a continuity of mystery that provokes thought. There are not excessive stage directions or character descriptions, it is ... Read More
Rating: - Who is mad?
Agnes open the play with a monologue in which she contemplates the possibility that one day, unexpectedly, she might turn mad. She says she contemplates it with astonishment, but she does not sound very astonished at all, she is more... fashinated by the idea. Her husband is listening, but not listening at all as if he could not hear Agnes, or her talking about the possibility of becoming mad was perfectly normal, or she has been mad a long time and he discounts her.
I won't spoil the play, but (for me) ... Read More
Rating: - One of Albee's Best
Albee, the playwright who invented one of the more complicated and vivid relationships ever in a play in ZOO STORY, has again demonstrated his intimate knowledge of the deeper motives behind human interaction. Every interaction between characters in this play -- from long monologues to short snippets of conversation -- has behind it some manner of conflict.
Everybody in this play needs change, and can only reach it through the destruction of others; Tobias and Agnes who simply want to be left alone, ... Read More
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