Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts - Couverture souple

Albee, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140251006 ISBN 13 : 9780140251005

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

A play covering the life of one woman at three different stages of her life and played by three different actresses. The original cast of the production at the Wyndhams theatre included Maggie Smith, Frances de la Tour and Anastasia Hille.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
Soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by Joe Mantello, starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony-nominee 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140251006
• ISBN 13: 9780140251005
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible