Posted on 09/16/2016 5:56:09 PM PDT by Borges
Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between self-delusion and truth and the roiling desperation beneath the facade of contemporary life, died Friday at his home in Montauk, N.Y. He was 88.
His personal assistant, Jakob Holder, confirmed the death. Mr. Holder said he had died after a short illness.
Mr. Albee’s career began after the death of Eugene O’Neill and after Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams had produced most of their best-known plays.From them he inherited the torch of American drama, carrying it through the era of Tony Kushner and “Angels in America” and into the 21st century.
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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe is a great more, and an ordeal at the same time. Dark.
If you watched the movie and drank liquor every time someone did in the movie, you'd be in a coma by the end of it...
You’re right.
I remember reading that Taylor and Burton were actually half crocked for much of the filming.
Yes, very dark.
Well, Albee.
RIP, sir.
Burton deadpans: "No doubt. I regret everything."
"Krapp's Last Tape" is a masterpiece, written by an artist at the zenith of his maturity
It's interesting that the callow Albee (at that time) would be double-billed with this stunning Beckett work.
RIP.
One of my favorite lines:
I hope that was an empty bottle. You can’t afford to waste good liquor.
Not on your salary! Not on an associate professor’s salary!
Good grief......I can’t believe we PAID to see this movie when it first came out. I STILL don’t understand what we saw........sigh.......RIP Mr. Albee.....
It demands multiple viewings.
Oh pleeeeeeeze don’t make me watch it again. I’ve tried a couple of times over the years but now that I’m old and re-watching WAOVW is not on my bucket list. Perhaps you can answer one question......was there a lost child anywhere in George and Martha’s past that made them so bitter?.......;)
One of the finest playwrights of our era. Sorry to hear this.
has some of the funniest lines in theater, e.g. "Our son is the apple of our three eyes, Martha being a cyclops."
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