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A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance
Author: Edward Albee
"Beautiful... A Delicate Balance strikes a balance between wisdom and folly, fact and fancy, truth and its consequences. It is as simple as a child's fable, as complex as life itself, and although the story it tells is profoundly serious, it is often gustily funny. It is a fascinating play, a mature and artful study of human beings caught up in ...  more »
ISBN: 261728
Publication Date: 1970
Pages: 175
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Publisher: Pocket Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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After getting tickets to see Albee's Pulizter Prize winning play "A Delicate Balance" on Broadway for next month (with Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Martha Plimpton and Bob Balaban!), I decided to read the play first to get an idea of what to expect. Edward Albee can be crazy and strange but this play is more down to earth than a play like "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" At least no one leaves their spouse for a barn animal.

This is a drama about an upper-middle-class family of WASPs who are couldn't be more dysfunctional. There's a lot of drinking, yelling, more drinking, and one person's fear that she is going mad, a daughter who is on her 4th divorce, and best friends who come to visit but expect to actually move in.

I liked it much more than I thought I would and can't wait to see it live.


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