A Delicate Balance

Description

Upper-middle-class suburbanites Agnes and Tobias and their accidental lodger, Agnes alcoholic sister Claire, are shocked when lifelong friends Harry and Edna show up in fear for their lives. Then Agnes and Tobias indignant daughter, Julia, returns to her parents after the collapse of her fourth marriage... For almost 50 years, A Delicate Balance has shone on both screen and stage. It first appeared in 1966, followed by a film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn in 1973, and a revival in 2011. A classic play about madness and the desperation to escape from reality, this is a fine example of why Albees work stands the test of time.

Edward Albee is an American playwright who has received three Pulitzer Prizes for A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women. His early works were heavily influenced by the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement closely associated with surrealism and existentialism. Other notable works include Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story and The American Dream. His latest play, At Home at the Zoo, was published in 2009.

One of the few great living American dramatists * New York Times * [Albee] is rightly recognized as one of the key figures in twentieth-century American drama, a peer of Eugene ONeill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Sam Shepard and a dramatist of exemplary courage, ambition, and resilience * New York Review of Books *