Three Tall Women

by Edward Albee

Overview

Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in ThreeTall 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 tells us about forgiveness, reconciliation, and our own fates. But it is his probing portrait of the three women that reveals Albee's genius. Seperate 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822214205
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/01/1994
Pages:	57
Sales rank:	262,154
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.74(h) x 0.15(d)
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

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Editorial Reviews

One of America's finest playwrights. Edward Albee offers a new play so good it can only exist on the stage. A perfect illustration of why theater is an indispensable art.

NY Times

An extraordinarily brilliant new play. THREE TALL WOMEN is the best, most forceful play [Albee] has given us...To be truthful about death is admirable, but to be elegant at the same time is almost Mozartian.

NY Post

Beautiful and enduring. THREE TALL WOMEN has earned Albee his third, and most deserved, Pulitzer Prize.

New Yorker

A Dazzler...Worthy of mention in the same breath as and THREE TALL WOMEN blazes as bright as a midsummer day. Electrifying and heartrending, each of Albee's women is memorable...

Wall Street Journal

Albee's drama of an old woman coming to grips with her life and approaching death earned him his third Pulitzer. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Praise for Three Tall Women

“Stunning...a masterpiece.”—Time

“A truly moving work...an undeniably affecting emotional core and a shimmeringly black sense of humor...essential for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped this influential writer.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times

“Another great play...a dazzler...a triumphant return to the town that feted and lionized the young playwright three decades ago.”—Wall Street Journal

“A powerful and moving work, his most emotionally affecting play since Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?...A memorable trinity of women...a passionate encounter with mortality.”—Newsweek

“Fine and authentic...Three Tall Women restores, or confirms, Edward Albee as one of America’s leading playwrights.”—New York Observer

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