The Plays of Edward Albee

Albee is “…in the pantheon with Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams…winning three Pulitzer Prizes and a 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award” (University of Michigan Press). We’ll read aloud (optional) and encourage discussion of his greatest plays, Zoo StoryTiny Alice and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Objective: Figure out what makes a great play great. Text: The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1 (1958-1965) (Amazon.com, new from $22.50, used from $7.94). Recommended: Edward Albee: A Singular Journey by Mel Gussow.