Three Tall Women (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Albee
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: An affluent dwelling, presumably in New England
- Principal Characters: A, B, C, The Boy
- Genres: Drama, Women’s literature, Absurdist literature, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Death or dying, Diseases, Old age or elderly people, Aging, Alzheimer’s disease
- Locales: New England
The Play
The action of Three Tall Women occurs during two acts set in the bedroom of A, a once-proud woman, who now, at age ninety-two, shows many of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease or some related illness associated with aging. She is forgetful, suspicious, at times hostile, and given to circular conversations. Joining her in her bedroom are B, her fifty-two-year-old secretary and caretaker, and C, the twenty-six-year-old representative of A’s attorney, there to sort out some of A’s financial affairs.
A is convinced that people are trying to rob her....
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