Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin plays & screenplays) - Softcover

Albee, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140251006 ISBN 13: 9780140251005

Publisher: Penguin, 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.

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Review

"Stunning ... a masterpiece."--Time

"A truly moving work ... an undeniably affecting emotional core and a shimmeringly black sense of humor ... essential for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped this influential writer."--Ben Brantley, New York Times

"Another great play ... a dazzler ... a triumphant return to the town that feted and lionized the young playwright three decades ago."--Wall Street Journal

"A powerful and moving work, his most emotionally affecting play since Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? ... A memorable trinity of women ... a passionate encounter with mortality."--Newsweek

"Fine and authentic ... Three Tall Women restores, or confirms, Edward Albee as one of America's leading playwrights."--New York Observer

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140251006
• ISBN 13: 9780140251005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128