THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA? Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy

Edward Albee

ISBN 10: 1585673641 / ISBN 13: 9781585673643

Published by Overlook Press, New York, 2003

About this Item

Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Remanider mark on bottom text block edge. ; 8.4 X 6.4 X 0.6 inches; 110 pages.

Seller Inventory # 162162

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GOAT OR WHO IS SYLVIA? Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy
• Publisher: Overlook Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585673641
• ISBN 13: 9781585673643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theatre and Performing Arts

About this title

Synopsis

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee's most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat won four major awards for best new play of the year (Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle). In the play, Martin, a successful architect who has just turned fifty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters.

The playwright himself describes it this way: Every civilization sets quite arbitrary limits to its tolerances. The play is about a family that is deeply rocked by an unimaginable event and they solve that problem. It is my hope that people will think afresh about whether or not all the values they hold are valid.

About the Author

Edward Albee's plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award), A Delicate Balance (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award), Seascape (Pulitzer Prize), Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize), and The Play About the Baby (available from Overlook). He was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the National Medal of Arts.