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A Delicate Balance: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, A Delicate Balance is one of Edward Albee’s most searching and unsettling plays—an unflinching portrait of comfort, fear, and the quiet terror of modern life.

Set in the living room of a prosperous suburban home, the play centers on Agnes and Tobias, a long‑married couple who pride themselves on civility, routine, and emotional restraint. Their carefully maintained equilibrium is shattered when close friends Harry and Edna arrive unannounced, fleeing a...

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