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Sto caricando le informazioni... Three Tall Women (Drama, Plume) (originale 1991; edizione 1995)di Edward Albee
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The two plays of Albee's with which I'm the most familiar are: (1) "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1962); and (2) "A Delicate Balance" (1966). In both cases, I watched the films before having read the plays. Thus, with "Three Tall Women", having never seen the play on stage -- I wondered how well I'd understand the "text on its own" ... From the beginning, as the characters bicker with one another, a kind of cat-and-mouse game develops, albeit imperceptibly -- Eventually, the ugly, brutal truths arrive (this play is bleak!). And this, I realized based upon my previous knowledge of the playwright's work, is the classic Albee formula -- Wherein mundane discussions morph into a blast of harsh reality ... I'm older than both of the characters "B" and "C" -- But younger than character "A". Having lost both of my parents, as of 2020 -- I understand the situation of "A" in a way that I wouldn't have when I was the ages of both "B" and "C". When "Three Tall Women" was first produced in NYC in 1994, my comprehension of this work would have been limited; too heavy for the person that I was in my mid-30's ... In essence: death is beckoning and "A" knows that her time is short. She's reviewing her life and she's complicated: blunt, cruel, difficult and racist. That being said, she shares certain details of her past with an unflinching honesty -- And it's a past that hasn't been all bad; she's had her fun and wild times along the way. In closing: "A" ends up giving "B", and particularly "C", a life lesson, that being: They should remember what's happening to her now -- As time will fly and it won't be long before both "B" and "C" will be staring down their mortality, as well. ( ) A powerful woman dominates this play, first as a young adult, then in middle age, and finally as an aging matriarch. Albee has confessed that the character is based on his rather difficult adoptive mother, a figure--like the character in the play--prone to great hatreds and paranoia. At the same time, though, she is impressive for her extraordinary self-confidence and stamina. The play also contains Albee's trademark absurdist humor. Critics consider it his finest work in thirty years. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA Recently revived on Broadway in a production directed by Joe Mantello, starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf Earning a Pulitzer and Best Play awards from the Evening Standard, Critics Circle, and Outer Critics Circle, among others, when it premiered, 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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