Three Tall Women

Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most prolific American playwrights, whose plays have been successfully staged around the world for more than half a century — almost all of them are bestsellers of dramaturgy. "Three Tall Women" earned Albee one of his Pulitzer Prizes, in 1994. Albee dedicated this play to the memory of his late adoptive mother. For those who know Albee's own story, the personal tone is beyond doubt: like the son of his heroine, he left home in his youth. He even took his adoptive father's surname. And now, in his old age, he is settling old accounts: the play has only three characters, or rather three heroines, and no one besides them has a voice with which to justify themselves. This play is about the fact that every age has its own truth, and everyone has their own reasons for worry and resentment, and their own grounds for forgiveness. All three women of different ages (92, 52, and 26 respectively) are merely aspects of one woman who lived a long and unhappy life. They are one in three persons. They share a biography and a fate. The boundaries between "I" and "we" are erased. A comic dialogue turns into confessional monologues.

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Edward Albee
Production: Mark Weil