Three Tall Women

Albee, Edward

ISBN 10: 0140251006 / ISBN 13: 9780140251005

Published by Penguin, London, 1995

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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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Three Tall Women

Publisher: Penguin, London

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

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.