Delicate Balance, A | Harold Clurman (review date 10 October 1966)
Harold Clurman (review date 10 October 1966)
SOURCE: A review of A Delicate Balance, in The Nation, Vol. 203, No. 11, 10 October 1966, pp. 361-63.
[The following favorable review maintains that A Delicate Balance is a brilliant play that conveys "the almost insuperable difficulty of loving one's neighbor, and the absolute necessity of behaving with love despite that difficulty."]
If someone should tell you that Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance is a brilliant play (which it is), ask: "What is its theme?" If another declares that it is very well written (also true), insist on knowing exactly how. And if its staging is praised, try to discover in what regard.
One might discuss the play's accomplishment in the context of its craftsmanship: a slight plot suffices to sustain a long evening and to maintain suspense. In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? this was achieved through the sparkling venom...
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