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A Delicate Balance

A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

August 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a play by Edward Albee, and boy does it feel like it. Agnes, a woman in her later fifties, opens the play with a discussion of possibly losing her mind. This is taken as sport by her husband Tobias, and her sister Claire who lives in the house with them. One of the prevailing motifs in the play is about alcoholism, but specifically discussions about whether or not someone’s behavior is past the line of alcoholism, or if alcohol abuse might be symptom […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edward Albee

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:459 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edward Albee ·
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Edward Albee Plays

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

June 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – The classic play from Edward Albee, which is one of the most intense two hours you can spend in a theater. It begins with the middle-aged couple of George and Marth coming home from a faculty party late at night, drunk, and bantering/bickering. As they start sorting through the evening in that way couples do, we learn that a few key things have happened. One, Martha made a very funny joke that became increasingly less funny the more times […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edward Albee

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:278 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edward Albee ·
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