The Goat

Goat, The

    Alternative Title: Who Is Sylvia?

    Author: Edward Albee

    First Performance: 2002, New York

    Published: 2003

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: New York apartment, c.2000

    Cast: 3m, 1f

Martin, a successful prizewinning 50-year-old architect, liberal, witty, and humane, is happily married to Stevie, his intellectual equal. When his lifelong friend Ross comes to set up a television interview, Martin confesses that, beside Stevie, he has another love: Sylvia, with whom he has been having an affair for six months. When it transpires that Sylvia is a goat, Ross feels obliged to inform Stevie by letter. She and their gay son Billy angrily confront Martin, who tries to defend himself by declaring the beauty of his love for Sylvia. Billy storms out, and the desperate Stevie...

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