Occupant

by Edward Albee

1m 1f / Dramatic ComedyUnapologetically flamboyant New York sculptor Louise Nevelson's life was one marked by intrepid artistic triumphs as well as deep inner turmoil. In Edward Albee's Occupant both her public accomplishments and private emotional conflicts are thoroughly examined by an unnamed interviewer who questions the posthumous Nevelson with an unabashed scrutiny. From her unique vantage point beyond the grave Nevelson answers his queries with a clarity born of the dist

Genres: Plays

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Noted 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."

Reviews

[Seyed Mohammad Reza Mahdavi · Rating 3 out of 5]

نمایشنامه فاتح
اثر ادوارد آلبی
مترجم : حسن فاضل
انتشارات نظام الملک
تعداد صفحات : 80
در پشت جلد می خوانید :
پس از "خورده ریز" و "بازی ازدواج" برای سومین بار به سراغ ادوارد آلبی رفتم. در اینجا در نمایش فاتح، آن که به گمانم ویژه ترین نمایشنامه اوست. اثری نمایشی بر زندگی مهمترین مجسمه ساز تاریخ آمریکا. بر زندگی لوییس نولسون و نشستن به پای حرفهای آن زن غریب، آن هم پس از مرگش!آن زن که خود را فاتح می خواند. آلبی در نمایشنامه های روان شناختی در اوج است. در قله ایستاده. از من اگر می پرسید تنها هم در آن قله ایستاده
حالا او بر زبان لوییس نولسون نامی نشسته و از دهان او همه ی ریز تا درشت زندگی هزار رنگ آن زن هنرمند را روایت می کند
از کودکی زجرآورش در محله های یهودنشین کیف تا مهاجرتش و تا ازدواجش و زندگی اش در نیویورک و سپس اروپا و تا ارتباطش با هافمن بزرگ و پیکاسو و دیگران و راز آن موفقیت جهانی اش و بر سر زبانها افتادنش و همه و همه ی اینها و عاقبت مرگش و فاتح شدنش
حسن فاضل

[Illiterate · Rating 1 out of 5]

Although the dialogue is quite sharp, this play is more gossipy biography than insightful study of identity, self-fashioning, art.

[Louise Silk · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't remember the last time I read a play. I chose this because I was doing research on Louise Nevelson and this is a play about her.

There are two characters in the play: a man interviewer and Louise after she has died. I felt like a really got a true sense of her as a person and it was interesting to learn about her life in this very thinly worded text as opposed to a long-winded biography.

[Kyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really loved Albee's style he used in the play, but I didn't like the structure of it being an interview with the character. Yes, we learned a bit about Nevelson, but there wasn't much actual action happening in the play.