Эдвард Олби — последние издания книг

В сборник вошли пьесы позднего периода творчества Э.Олби "Морской пейзаж", "Три высокие женщины", "Коза, или Кто такая Сильвия?".

When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek keenly foresaw "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as "a brilliantly original work of art-an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire that will be igniting Broadway for some time to come".

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When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are drawn as Martha and George drag their guests into their own private hell of a marriage.

America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking

В семье знаменитого человека создан ореол любви, дружбы и уважения друг к другу. Психологическая дуэль между родственниками и близкими у постели умирающего показывает, что это не так. Каждый в отдельности любит и уважает его, но между собой они демонстрируют неприязнь, вплоть до ненависти.
Спектакль интересен тем, что в нем отсутствуют меркантильные мотивы в виде раздела имущества и раскрывается глубокий пласт отношений между людьми.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat won every major award for best new play of the year: the Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. In the play, Martin—a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty—leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters.

The playwright himself describes it this way: “Every civilization sets quite arbitrary limits to its tolerances. The play is about a family that is deeply rocked by an unimaginable event and how they solve that problem. It is my hope that people will think afresh about whether or not all the values they hold are valid."

The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple—Boy and Girl—have a new baby, whom an older couple—Man and Woman—have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, “If you don’t have the wound of a broken heart, how can you know you’re alive?” Brutal loss—the loss of a child or childhood self—has been a recurring Albee theme, and Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to The Play About the Baby when he called it a “funny, harrowing dramatic fable … as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver.”

When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are drawn as Martha and George drag their guests into their own private hell of a marriage.

Радиоспектакль Московского театра "Современник", 1988
Режиссер - Валерий Фокин
История одной ночи из жизни внешне благопристойной и удачливой супружеской пары: Джордж — преподаватель университета в одном из городов Америки, Марта — его жена, которая жаждет, чтобы муж непременно занял пост ректора. Джордж и Марта пригласили в гости своих коллег по университету — молодую чету Ника и Хани, которые становятся зрителями и непосредственными участниками откровенного выяснения отношений между хозяевами дома. Марта и Джордж живут вместе уже двадцать лет. Многое в их жизни обман, порою самообман, порою вынужденный, а порою предпочтенный. И эта ночь становится временем решительного сражения, срывания масок и разоблачений.

В сборник Эдварда Олби вошли пьесы: "Смерть Беси Смит", "Что случилось в зоопарке", "Не боюсь Вирджинии Вулф", "Все кончено" и статья Г.Злобина "Пограничье Эдварда Олби" о творческом пути писателя.