Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
A young lawyer, C, has been sent to the home of a client, a ninety-two-year-old woman A, to sort out her finances. A, who is frail and perhaps a bit senile, resists and is of no help to C. Teaming up with B, the old woman's matronly paid companion/caretaker, C tries to convince A that she must concentrate on the matters at hand. In A's beautifully appointed bedroom, she prods, discusses and bickers with B and C, her captives.A's long life is laid out for display, no holds barred. She cascades from regal and charming to vicious and wretched as she wonders about and remembers her life: her husband and their cold, passionless marriage; her son and their estrangement. How did she become this? Who is she? When recounting her most painful memory, she suffers a stroke.In Act Two, A's comatose body lies in bed as B and C observe no changes in her condition. In a startling coup-de-theatre, A enters, very much alive and quite lucid. The three women are now the stages of A's life: the imperious old woman, the regal matron and the young woman of 26. Her life, memories and reminiscences are now unceremoniously examined and questioned, accepted or not, but at last understood. In the end, her son arrives and kneels at her bedside, but it is too late.
Edward Albee is one of a handful of our country's most important living playwrights. He has won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and three Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?). In 1996 he received a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award and was presented with the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. At the Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony, Albee was praised for his impact on American drama: Albee's plays, with their intensity, their grappling with modern themes, and their experiments in form, startled critics and audiences alike while changing the landscape of American drama.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822214205 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822214202 |
| Title | Three Tall Women |
| Author | Edward Albee |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Josef Weinberger Plays |
| Year published | 2002-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 57 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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