Albee, Edward Franklin
Albee, Edward Franklin ( 1928 – ),American playwright, associated with the Theatre of the Absurd , whose later explorations of sexual fantasy, frustration, and domestic anguish also recall the plays of T. Williams . His works include the macabre one-act satiric comedy The American Dream ( 1961 ); the more naturalistic marital tragi-comedy of academe Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( 1962 ); Tiny Alice ( 1965 ), a fantasy of wealth and corruption; and A Delicate Balance ( 1966 ), a tragi-comedy set in a hard-drinking domestic environment. Later plays include The Lady from Dubuque ( 1980 ), Marriage Play ( 1986 ), Three Tall Women (perf. Vienna 1992 , NY 1994 , of which the leading character is based on his adoptive mother), and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? ( 2002 ), a domestic tragicomedy.
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