The Goat: Or, Who is Sylvia? (Modern Plays)

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On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn celebration to tragedy. The Goat is hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love. My plays are an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy keen - Edward Albee Winner of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2002

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On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn celebration to tragedy. The Goat is hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love. My plays are an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy keen - Edward Albee Winner of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2002

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 08 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 041377385X
ISBN 13: 9780413773852
Book Overview: This title won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play. Other titles include The Zoo Story & Other Plays and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf . Three Tall Women (1994) won Edward Albee a third Pulitzer Prize as well as Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle. He had previously won Pulitzers for A Delicate Balance (1966) and Seascape (1975). (Other awards in clude an Obie Award (1960) and a Tony Award (1964).

Author Bio

Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928. His plays include The Zoo Story(1958), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), The Lady from Dubuque (1977-78), Finding the Sun (1982), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.