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The Zoo Story
The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world.
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First published September 28, 1959
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Edward Albee
190 books585 followersNoted American playwright Edward Franklin Albee explored the darker aspects of human relationships in plays like
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1962) and
Three Tall Women
(1991), which won his third Pulitzer Prize.
People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, including The Zoo Story , The Sandbox and The American Dream .
He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such as Jean Genet, Samuel Barclay Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel credits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with helping to reinvent the postwar theater in the early 1960s. Dedication of Albee to continuing to evolve his voice — as evidenced in later productions such as The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (2000) — also routinely marks him as distinct of his era.
Albee described his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, including The Zoo Story , The Sandbox and The American Dream .
He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such as Jean Genet, Samuel Barclay Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel credits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with helping to reinvent the postwar theater in the early 1960s. Dedication of Albee to continuing to evolve his voice — as evidenced in later productions such as The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (2000) — also routinely marks him as distinct of his era.
Albee described his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
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March 26, 2020
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4 out of 5 stars to The Zoo Story, written in 1959 by Edward Albee. If you haven't read this story, you've missed out on something intense and truly spellbinding. It's a classic American play staged on Broadway (and other places), but so few have probably read it these days. The story is amazing and not what what anyone would expect from the title, of even in general. Two men sit on a bench in Central Park. Uppity business man taking a break from his day. A man approaches, appears a bit like a vagabond. He wants to talk. The business man wants to ignore him. The vagabond asks useless and painful questions. The business man wants to walk away, but the vagabond tickles him. A fight ensues. Something bad happens. One man runs away. The other reflects on what he's learned.
What a commentary on society. Forget age, gender, race or class. It's a story about how different personalities handle conflict or friendship. Do you get close or stay distant? Do you listen or talk? Do you ignore or immerse? And when something bad happens, what kind of character do you have? Do you stay or go? Do you deny or admit? All the choices we make in life. Wrapped up into a little old play so many of us haven't actually read or seen.
So what are you waiting for? Sure, it's not a suspense novel (which I love). It's a not a page-turning thriller (which I love). But the dialog is on point. And it should be read. So go now.
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4 out of 5 stars to The Zoo Story, written in 1959 by Edward Albee. If you haven't read this story, you've missed out on something intense and truly spellbinding. It's a classic American play staged on Broadway (and other places), but so few have probably read it these days. The story is amazing and not what what anyone would expect from the title, of even in general. Two men sit on a bench in Central Park. Uppity business man taking a break from his day. A man approaches, appears a bit like a vagabond. He wants to talk. The business man wants to ignore him. The vagabond asks useless and painful questions. The business man wants to walk away, but the vagabond tickles him. A fight ensues. Something bad happens. One man runs away. The other reflects on what he's learned.
What a commentary on society. Forget age, gender, race or class. It's a story about how different personalities handle conflict or friendship. Do you get close or stay distant? Do you listen or talk? Do you ignore or immerse? And when something bad happens, what kind of character do you have? Do you stay or go? Do you deny or admit? All the choices we make in life. Wrapped up into a little old play so many of us haven't actually read or seen.
So what are you waiting for? Sure, it's not a suspense novel (which I love). It's a not a page-turning thriller (which I love). But the dialog is on point. And it should be read. So go now.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
December 27, 2016
Highly recommended
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SPOILER ALERT REVIEW !
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Genre:
Theatre of the Absurd
"The Zoo Story", a play in which there is no zoo! It depicts a world which doesn’t make a sense. Human beings always want to find a meaning for their lives. They all want to know what happened at the zoo, but they soon will understand the absurdity of their lives and will get disappointed. This is the theatre of the absurd!
The Title
As Jerry tells Peter in the story:You’re an animal too.''" , it shows a side of human which is not controlled by himself. It is the animal part of human beings. It’s like that we all live in a zoo all together. Jerry fights with the dog just like he fights with other people. He communicates with the dog as well as he tries to communicate with Peter.
"If you can't deal with people, you have to make a start somewhere. With animals!"
This part of the play made me think about zoophilism but as the story goes on the main ideas and the key themes will be gradually revealed.
Themes:
Isolation, loneliness, miscommunication, intimacy, Sexual Identity, homosexualism, social class, and absurdism
Intimacy is not just about friendship – it requires a fundamental sense of understanding and compassion between two people. This kind of intimacy does not necessarily need to be accumulated over time. Albee believes that it can be achieved simply by approaching a stranger like Peter and getting know somebody.
many critics interpret the play as an allegory about the repression of taboo sexual desires. Albee himself is a gay, and critics consider Jerry's loneliness – and desperate fumbling for intimacy with a male stranger – to be representative of the gay male experience in 1958. There are also erotic undertones to Peter and Jerry's interaction, even when sex is not being discussed explicitly. For example, many critics have pointed out the phallic resonance of Jerry's death, which occurs through a knife-wound in the abdomen.
This phallic symbol at the end, refers to Freud ideas and by considering his ideas you can say The knife that Peter wields and Jerry falls upon can be seen as a symbol of a p-e-n-i-s.
The use of the knife isn't just about potency, though. It's also about sex. Jerry tells Peter he's a homosexual. And tickling Peter, can be seen as a kind of courtship or love affair. In some ways, the last scene makes more sense as sex than as murder. Jerry is, after all, happy after he's stabbed, and feels that he's connected with Peter in a new and wonderful way. Peter is horrified. But he might well be horrified after sex too, since he's married and thinks of himself as heterosexual.
Symbolism:
Knife : phallic symbol
Bench: There is only one thing on the stage, and that's the bench. Peter who has a good job and a lovable family, enjoys his life happily.
"I sit on this bench almost every Sunday afternoon, in good weather. It's secluded here; there's never anyone sitting here, so I have it all to myself. "
And when Jerry says: "You have everything, and now you want this bench. Are these the things men fight for?"
The bench is a symbol of pride and all thing one has. If they can take your bench, what will they take next? Your pets? Your home, your spouse, your job?
Dog: The dog attacks Jerry, Jerry tries to poison him. It's a black monster. It symbolizes some sort of existential about the horror of humanity and the cruelty of life.
Zoo:
The zoo symbolizes the fact that the zoo is not the zoo. That's how the Theater of the Absurd rolls.
The day is nice, the sun is warm,all is well with the world. The setting is meant to be all nice and quiet and comfortable to contrast with the dirty, messy unpleasantness and absurdity of existence.
Climax (Turning Point)
The big, climactic, exciting moment of no return occurs late in the play, when Jerry tries to put Peter off the bench. Worse leads to worse, and Jerry ends up killing himself. That's really the only point where you could say anything actually happens, action-wise. It is sudden and final, though.
Ending:
At the end of the story, Peter screams ''Oh my God''. And then Jerry imitates him. "Oh…my…God," and then he dies.
It's so IRONIC here! You see that as Jerry mocking Peter and making fun of his meaningless references to a religion he probably doesn't really believe. The story is not a religious sort of play. The zoo is a place against the idea of holly God who is said to be faultless.
"JERRY: [His eyes still closed, he shakes his head and speak; a conbination of scornful
mimicry and supplication] Oh ... my ... God. [He is dead.] "
this last lines of the play, shows that how Jerry wanted to be like Peter but he couldn't make it work. And he died at last after his absurd life.
Sources:
1. the Zoo Story by Edward Albee
2. The zoo story analysis via Shmoop.com
3. Theatre of the absurd by Martin Esslin
4. The zoo story by Edward Albee via gradesaver.com
April 4, 2019
وقتی پسربچهای از خیالپردازی به عنوان جانشینی برای تجربه واقعی استفاده میکنی، و وقتی بزرگتر شدی از تجربه واقعی به عنوان جانشینی برای خیالپردازی.
October 7, 2016
Dunno what to say! I'm still shocked...
May 24, 2020
A brilliant analysis of the plight of the alienated intellectual and a sharp critique of the prevalent homophobia in 1950s America.
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October 22, 2015I found this old essay I wrote about this play my senior year of college. it's pretty fantastic. I got to read it out loud in front of the class. SPOILERS
The Zoo Story is a play about two seemingly opposite men, Peter and Jerry, conversing in Central Park about their family and home-life. Jerry tells a long, rambled story about a conflict between he and his landlady's dog that seems to have little significance to anything. Peter and Jerry's encounter begins rather comically, but ends in shocking, sudden violence. After Peter accidently kills Jerry, the conflict between Jerry and the dog suddenly symbolizes Jerry's conflict with his own existence. Jerry dies in order to feel an un-compromised, active emotion from another person (or thing).
In the end, Jerry's desire to be killed in anger is a response to a struggle he seems to have with himself and those around him. It suddenly becomes clear, after he is killed, why Jerry told "the story of Jerry and the Dog". In the story, Jerry confesses sadness and humility that he and the dog no longer fight with each other, that instead they have "attained a compromise" where they "neither love nor hurt because [they] do not try to reach each other" (Albee 20). He is humiliated because both he and the dog have given up; they merely "regard each other with a mixture of sadness and suspicion" and "feign indifference" (20). When Peter decides to leave the park and go back to his home, one gets the sense that if Jerry had let him leave, then their relationship would have ended just like that of he and the dog, that of sadness and suspicion, where neither is loved nor hurt by the other. However, Jerry sacrifices himself in order to avoid such a compromise, devoid of any active emotion.
"The story of Jerry and the Dog" alludes to Jerry's own struggles with humanity itself. We learn details of his troubled upbringing, his non-existent parents, his confused sexuality, all of which give us the impression that he is a man tortured by life's ambiguities and ambivalence. He says "a person has to have some way of dealing with SOMETHING...if not with people" (19). Because of his unhappiness and detachment from other people, Jerry expresses the need for connection, which can come from anything, everything from pornographic playing cards, to a street corner, to a mirror ("that's one of the last steps"). Jerry provokes the confrontation with Peter that ultimately ends in his own death, because he wants to be reassured that resistance to a compromise of ambivalence is possible.
One could say that by "voluntarily" dying, Jerry has given up on life, that he no longer wants to live. However, the reason for Jerry's sadness and humility is because he is unable to find anyone, or thing, which is willing to be loved or hurt by him, or vice versa. The ambivalence of emotions is what depresses him the most. By allowing himself to be hurt, he is able to find reassurance that, even though he dies in process, he is able to connect with someone on an emotional level, he feels their emotion. As he lays dying, he reassures Peter that he is not a "vegetable" but rather, he is an "animal" (27). He is pleased to see that Peter has not given in to his own emotions, desires, and instincts; he is willing to stand for something by defending "his bench".
In order to avoid living in an existence of compromise, Jerry provokes Peter to kill him, as a test for himself to see that morality and ethics can still exist. Through dying, he is able to be hurt by another person, establishing an emotional connection rather than compromise.
The Zoo Story is a play about two seemingly opposite men, Peter and Jerry, conversing in Central Park about their family and home-life. Jerry tells a long, rambled story about a conflict between he and his landlady's dog that seems to have little significance to anything. Peter and Jerry's encounter begins rather comically, but ends in shocking, sudden violence. After Peter accidently kills Jerry, the conflict between Jerry and the dog suddenly symbolizes Jerry's conflict with his own existence. Jerry dies in order to feel an un-compromised, active emotion from another person (or thing).
In the end, Jerry's desire to be killed in anger is a response to a struggle he seems to have with himself and those around him. It suddenly becomes clear, after he is killed, why Jerry told "the story of Jerry and the Dog". In the story, Jerry confesses sadness and humility that he and the dog no longer fight with each other, that instead they have "attained a compromise" where they "neither love nor hurt because [they] do not try to reach each other" (Albee 20). He is humiliated because both he and the dog have given up; they merely "regard each other with a mixture of sadness and suspicion" and "feign indifference" (20). When Peter decides to leave the park and go back to his home, one gets the sense that if Jerry had let him leave, then their relationship would have ended just like that of he and the dog, that of sadness and suspicion, where neither is loved nor hurt by the other. However, Jerry sacrifices himself in order to avoid such a compromise, devoid of any active emotion.
"The story of Jerry and the Dog" alludes to Jerry's own struggles with humanity itself. We learn details of his troubled upbringing, his non-existent parents, his confused sexuality, all of which give us the impression that he is a man tortured by life's ambiguities and ambivalence. He says "a person has to have some way of dealing with SOMETHING...if not with people" (19). Because of his unhappiness and detachment from other people, Jerry expresses the need for connection, which can come from anything, everything from pornographic playing cards, to a street corner, to a mirror ("that's one of the last steps"). Jerry provokes the confrontation with Peter that ultimately ends in his own death, because he wants to be reassured that resistance to a compromise of ambivalence is possible.
One could say that by "voluntarily" dying, Jerry has given up on life, that he no longer wants to live. However, the reason for Jerry's sadness and humility is because he is unable to find anyone, or thing, which is willing to be loved or hurt by him, or vice versa. The ambivalence of emotions is what depresses him the most. By allowing himself to be hurt, he is able to find reassurance that, even though he dies in process, he is able to connect with someone on an emotional level, he feels their emotion. As he lays dying, he reassures Peter that he is not a "vegetable" but rather, he is an "animal" (27). He is pleased to see that Peter has not given in to his own emotions, desires, and instincts; he is willing to stand for something by defending "his bench".
In order to avoid living in an existence of compromise, Jerry provokes Peter to kill him, as a test for himself to see that morality and ethics can still exist. Through dying, he is able to be hurt by another person, establishing an emotional connection rather than compromise.
June 3, 2015
بار دومه میخونمش. زیباست. ترجمهی داریوش مودبیان پرحرف و نادقیقه ولی حس رو میرسونه.
May 17, 2015
I had to read this for my English class and I am so glad I did. Not only did I understand it, but it was broken down so well I was blown away. This is a play about two men, it has underlying tones of homosexuality, loneliness, unhappiness and that's just to name a few things. It is short but so very powerful. I would recommend this play and suggest you read it with someone and have a discussion on it. It's interesting to see everyone's take on this.
December 11, 2020
A breathtaking piece full of imagination, realism, and insanity.
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November 7, 2018No one writes loneliness better than Edward Albee. The underlying themes of alienation, sexual identity, belonging all culminates to an ending that neither of the two characters see it coming. Albee works around symbolism and an undercurrent of stagnation that people end up in during their lifetimes. An excellent play that plays out exactly how its written and its interpretation lies in its words than in setting.
July 25, 2018
Jahre, ach was Jahrzehnte, liegt die Lektüre zurück. Wir laden es im Englisch-unterricht und wir haben es gehasst.
Lag evtl. mehr an Schule als am Text.
Lag evtl. mehr an Schule als am Text.
May 31, 2025
"It's just ... it's just that ... [JERRY is abnormally tense, now.] ... it's just that if you can't deal with people, you have to make a start somewhere. WITH ANIMALS! [Much faster now, and like a conspiraor.] Don't you see? A person has to have some way of dealing with SOMETHING. If not with people ... SOMETHING. With a bed, with a cockroach, with a mirror ... no, that's too hard, that's one of the last steps. With a cockroach, with a ... with a ... with a carpet, a roll of toilet paper ... no, not that, either ... that's a mirror, too; always check bleeding. You see how hard it is to find things?"
January 7, 2012
Read for my American Lit class.
This is a thought-provoking absurdist one-act play that I just did not "get" during my first pass. I was looking at it a little too simplistically. I wasn't prepared for that ending. I wasn't prepared for any of it. But now that it's in my consciousness, I'm not sure I'll be able to get any of it out of my head ever again.
This is a thought-provoking absurdist one-act play that I just did not "get" during my first pass. I was looking at it a little too simplistically. I wasn't prepared for that ending. I wasn't prepared for any of it. But now that it's in my consciousness, I'm not sure I'll be able to get any of it out of my head ever again.
May 14, 2012
"Under a spell" is the best way to describe what it was like to read Edward Albee's The Zoo Story. There aren't many playwrights out there as good as Edward Albee.
June 18, 2013
Leaves you thinking. It was good.
November 21, 2016
"sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly."
March 5, 2025
DAMNNNNN cosa ho appena letto
April 25, 2016
I had to read this play for my Drama class this semester.
I think this play is going to be my favorite. If you would ask me if I was going to like absurd theatre, I probably would have thought no, though I wouldn't have actually said it before reading it. LOL. I've been going to a few plays in the last couple of weeks and I would love to experience an absurd play in the theatre. Preferably, this one!
We have two characters on a nice day in New York's Central Park. And Jerry randomly is going to tell a random guy at the bench about what happened during his zoo visit. That's how it starts anyways. I'm not going to go into much detail because the play itself is quite short, so go read it! I loved both characters, I could see a little bit of myself in both of them. One has fit in, in this society, living life by the rules. Not poking in life's mysteries and meaning and why there is marriage and why people have to buy houses and cars etc. And Jerry, is exactly the opposite.
Now there are many interpretations on their relation to each other. And something interesting is going on in the play with the number two. And yes, one can talk three hours on a short, one act play like this one and still feel the need to talk more because somehow you are not satisfied and want to dig deeper and talk more about how these two can be doppelgänger and etc etc etc etc. You know what I mean? Please, do.
Anyway, the ending was good. I liked it. And one can find many different interpretations on the ending too. I really feel for Jerry. I really loved him as a character. And I can see how people think that they are both the same person. And I'm becoming one of them too. Because it really is a character I think a lot of people have in them. But it's better to shut Jerry out because that's how we can survive in this society. Yay!!
So, anyways, what happened at the zoo?
I think this play is going to be my favorite. If you would ask me if I was going to like absurd theatre, I probably would have thought no, though I wouldn't have actually said it before reading it. LOL. I've been going to a few plays in the last couple of weeks and I would love to experience an absurd play in the theatre. Preferably, this one!
We have two characters on a nice day in New York's Central Park. And Jerry randomly is going to tell a random guy at the bench about what happened during his zoo visit. That's how it starts anyways. I'm not going to go into much detail because the play itself is quite short, so go read it! I loved both characters, I could see a little bit of myself in both of them. One has fit in, in this society, living life by the rules. Not poking in life's mysteries and meaning and why there is marriage and why people have to buy houses and cars etc. And Jerry, is exactly the opposite.
Now there are many interpretations on their relation to each other. And something interesting is going on in the play with the number two. And yes, one can talk three hours on a short, one act play like this one and still feel the need to talk more because somehow you are not satisfied and want to dig deeper and talk more about how these two can be doppelgänger and etc etc etc etc. You know what I mean? Please, do.
Anyway, the ending was good. I liked it. And one can find many different interpretations on the ending too. I really feel for Jerry. I really loved him as a character. And I can see how people think that they are both the same person. And I'm becoming one of them too. Because it really is a character I think a lot of people have in them. But it's better to shut Jerry out because that's how we can survive in this society. Yay!!
So, anyways, what happened at the zoo?
December 26, 2024
Peter is enjoying a book on a bench in Central Park when another man (named Jerry) adresses him. Out of politeness, Peter engages in the conversation even though he'd prefer to stay for himself. But Jerry doesn't let him off the hook while the conversation gets more and more uncomfortable...
Albee's play is about the comfortable ignorance of the middle classes. The world is built around their needs and they enjoy this comfort and idyll as their normality. Their limited perspective on the world locks out the misery other people might suffer. And when poverty forces itself into their field of view, they'd prefer to look the other way. Albee puts us in Peter's shoes. There is a rising feeling of dread throughout the play as Peter is forced to hear about Jerry's life. He doesn't want to give up the idyll that is the bench, but Jerry is forcing him. Even in the end, when , it is still Peter who sees himself as the real victim. Albee's play is a bitter critique of classism wrapped in this gem of a short play.
[Best enjoyed with some Ernst Busch playing in the background.]
Albee's play is about the comfortable ignorance of the middle classes. The world is built around their needs and they enjoy this comfort and idyll as their normality. Their limited perspective on the world locks out the misery other people might suffer. And when poverty forces itself into their field of view, they'd prefer to look the other way. Albee puts us in Peter's shoes. There is a rising feeling of dread throughout the play as Peter is forced to hear about Jerry's life. He doesn't want to give up the idyll that is the bench, but Jerry is forcing him. Even in the end, when , it is still Peter who sees himself as the real victim. Albee's play is a bitter critique of classism wrapped in this gem of a short play.
[Best enjoyed with some Ernst Busch playing in the background.]
February 10, 2017
Still shocked. Best written play. Jerry is phenomenal.
February 9, 2021
this play was insane. read it and then contact me because we should talk.
December 7, 2023
read for uni
January 15, 2019
Sadece 40 dakikalik bir anlatimi olan hikaye beklentimin altinda kaldi diyebilirim. Belki ilerde oyun olarak izlerim sanki bir eksiklik var gibi turkceye cevirim yapanlara her zaman biraz kuskuyla yaklasiyorum. ne mutlu orginalinde okuyabilenlere.Gecmis deki cevirmenler gibilerini bulmak zor oluyor. Simdide var iyi ceviri yapanlar ama her yayin evi ile calismiyorlar ne yazik ki.Biraz agresiv bir anlatim di konu olarak dedigim gibi eksiklik hissettim anlatimda.
October 17, 2025
Loneliness and chaos intrude on normal life. Tense, comic, absurd.
March 8, 2016
I'm sure that one can read this play in any number of ways. I choose to see Peter and Jerry as doppelgängers--the former living a life we are all conditioned to think is normal/successful, while the latter lives a life of lonely isolation. Jerry expresses a deep fear underlying the mask of respectability structuring Peter's life--the fear that Peter's life might indeed be more of a "zoo" than he cares to admit. Their meeting represents Peter's encounter with himself--one he resists due to the horrifying possibility of self-knowledge. To me, the ending suggests not that Peter escapes or destroys Jerry, but that Jerry transfers or merges his reality with Peter, who is forever changed by an encounter that, in the words of Werner Herzog, melts away the thin layer of civilization that crystalizes like ice over a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
November 9, 2017
this is being placed on my favorites shelf just b/c it's the first play i've ever read by myself (not for school), so it deserves a special place in my heart. it's also just fucking wild dude what the hell. goddamn, albee. but i enjoyed it more than i thought i would, given that this is like my 5th attempt at reading a play by myself and the first four all failed
May 24, 2016
The dialogue kept me on edge. Actually it doesn't feel that dated at all. This whole interaction could happen today, just as it is.
For me, a great example of Don't Talk to Strangers in Public Because They Probably Are Bananas.
For me, a great example of Don't Talk to Strangers in Public Because They Probably Are Bananas.
September 9, 2016
I love plays that stand between madness and genius and this is definitely one of them. Short, concise, vivid, up to what point is absurd theatre really senseless and is it not reality which, when shown naked, seems absurd?
March 20, 2017
My first Albee play that I've read. I expected it to be absurd....but somehow the absurdity made sense. The philosophy mentioned in the text is quite fascinating....and makes me think about how we humans interact with each other. This play takes it to the extreme.
May 25, 2017
I have mixed feelings about this play. It made me really uncomfortable and anxious 😩 and the ending was a real shock (I'm still at disbelief). It was not a bad play don't get me wrong but like I said it made me anxious;therefore, I didn't enjoy my reading experience.
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