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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.
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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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Albee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to another, and each faces her travails and disappointments with lots of Albee's trademark bitter wit. In the second act, however, the three women become representatives of the same person at different ages (26, 52, late 80s), and their bickering talk becomes a touching internal colloquy about life, love, and the inevitability of loss. Not since Beckett's brooding meditation Krapp's Last Tape has a playwright dealt so movingly with the subject of disappointment, aging, and death. Jack Helbig
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[Playbill]: Three Tall Women
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Penguin Books Ltd, 1995. Paperback. Condition: Good. Slight rubbing on the back cover. However, the binding is still tight and square and the text block is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # ABE-1602284971990
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ISBN 13: 9780140251005
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in wrappers. AS NEW. Photograph of Maggie Smith, Anastasia Hille, and Frances de la Tour performing the play (Wyndham's Theatre, London 1994). Seller Inventory # b22068
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