Albee In Performance

A premier playwright Edward Albee is also a gifted director. Albee inPerformance details Albees directorial vision and how that vision animates hisplays. Having... » 

A premier playwright Edward Albee is also a gifted director. Albee inPerformance details Albees directorial vision and how that vision animates hisplays. Having had extraordinary access to Albee as director Rakesh H. Solomonreveals how Albee has shaped his plays in performance the attention he pays toeach aspect of theater and how his conception of the key plays he has directedhas evolved over a fivedecade career. Solomon pays careful attention to themajor works from The American Dream and Zoo Story to Albees bestknown workWhos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as well as to later plays such as MarriagePlay and Three Tall Women. The book also includes interviews with Albee and hiscollaborators on all aspects of staging from rehearsal to performance. «