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Jeane Luere (review date May 1992)

SOURCE: A review of Three Tall Women, in Theatre Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2, May, 1992, pp. 251-52.

[In the following review of a production of Three Tall Women directed by Albee, Luere offers praise for the play, comparing it to Albee's previous works and noting his focus on family, guilt, love, and identity.]

Receptive audiences at Vienna's English Theatre, which in the past has been host to Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Lanford Wilson, are hailing the new Edward Albee offering [Three Tall Women], giving the play's three-in-one heroine emotional precedence over men and women in his previous dramas. In stirring anecdotes, the eldest third of Albee's strong composite heroine, a ninety-year-old with a prodigal son, divulges her prejudices, her attitudes and insights on the lack of substance in the upper crust into which she has married. The two other onstage characters,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Jeane Luere (review date May 1992)
   2. Ben Brantley (review date 14 February 1994)
   3. Stefan Kanfer (review date 14-28 February 1994)
   4. Michael Feingold (review date 1 March 1994)
   5. Tim Appelo (review date 14 March 1994)
   6. Robert Brustein (review date 4 April 1994)
   7. David Richards (essay date 13 April 1994)
   8. John Lahr (review date 16 May 1994)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright