At Home At The Zoo

Description

The famous dramatist delves deeper into his play The Zoo Story. 'I've been to the zoo.' These opening words usher the audience into one of the most iconic plays in American theatre history: The Zoo Story. More than fifty years later, master playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) wrote a prequel to his classic. Home Life contains the events in Peter's life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter's wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park. For the first time collected in one volume, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo is a must for any theatre lover.

Edward Albee is a member of the Dramatists' Guild Council and President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005 he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Houston, Texas.

An essential and heartening experience * The New York Times * This marriage of new and old Albee contains many nuggets of revelation and pays off richly in the end. * San Francisco Chronicle * Masterful and riveting. * Philadelphia Inquirer *