Edward Albee
Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee IIIis an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His works are often considered as well-crafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.
A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.