A Delicate Balance
by Edward Albee
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Author: Edward AlbeeEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-01
ISBN: 0452278090
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: Among His Best; My Favorite
Summary: 4 Stars
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will be the play that is revived again and again over years, like Hellman's "Little Foxes," because middle-aged stars will be asked what they'd like to do and, inevitably, this is the play of choice, but like Hellman's lesser-known "Another Part of the Forest," this play by Albee is his best. It is less flashy, less loud, less dramatic, but it is deeper and more moving. It 'plays' to the women in the audience, I suppose, because Agnes is more interesting of the characters, more so than Tobias. The Harry and Edna characters are mere shadows of the lead couple, in fact one can see them as alter-egos of the two leads, their lesser or better halves, depending on how one sees it. Anyway, Harry and Edna come to visit one night and then want to stay. Their intrusion or invasion, if you like, sets the house afire, and Albee has a field day working out what in the end is a reasonably challenging moral dilemma: let them stay or throw them out? Of course, there are cultures for which this would not be such a crisis, but for WASPS issues of 'sharing' and of 'giving' get to the heart of what love is, and Albee suggests these people might not have any love to give.
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