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Marriage Play
Marriage Play
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Author: Edward Albee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 41 Pub. Date: 1995 ISBN-10: 0822214229 ISBN-13: 9780822214229 Cast Size: 1 female, 1 male
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About
the Play:
Marriage Play is a full-length drama by Edward Albee.
Jack and Gillian's 30-year marriage appears to be falling apart.
Marriage Play explores the crisis as they sort through the
memories, grievances, and love they've shared, searching for
certainty about their future. A concise look at that point in life
where one can question his or her very existence.
Marriage Play portrays a pair of warring spouses. Jack
comes home from a middling day at the office to quickly announce to
his wife, Gillian, that he is leaving her. Suspecting for some time a
midlife crisis, Gillian goads Jack about this announcement, forcing
him to try it again – going outside and coming in again – twice!
Jack wants his wife, whom he still loves, to really understand his
fears and the reasons he must leave her. His days seem unknown to
him; his secretary of fifteen years is a total stranger; his sex is
by rote. Gillian understands but feels the investment of a
thirty-year marriage is worth holding on to because so much is in
place, and quite frankly, they've been through these changes before:
affairs, neglect, sections of time forgotten. Jack accuses Gillian of
not listening, an accusation she easily returns, and when Jack then
does start to leave, Gillian blocks him and a small battle ensues.
Retreating to their corners, both recount memorable points in their
marriage and lives, and discovering that through it all, nothing is
really enough. As the lights fade, they prepare for a departure but
don't make a move.
Marriage Play premiered in 1987 at Vienna's English Theatre in
Vienna, Austria. The American premiere was a co-production first
presented in 1992 at the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas and
subsequently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. It was
produced off-Broadway at New York's Signature Theatre in 1993 and
remounted at London's National Theatre in 2001 in a double bill with Finding the Sun. The
play has been
performed in regional, college, and community theatre
productions.
Cast: 1 female, 1 male
What people say:
"Albee's writing, as ever,
proves taut, effective and often slyly yet corrosively funny."
— The New York Times
"…it's disturbing, funny,
violent, and not in the least sentimental." — The
New Yorker
About the Playwright:
Edward Albee (1928-2016) was an American playwright. Widely
considered the foremost American dramatist of his generation, he
wrote and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American
theatre. Three of his plays have received Pulitzer Prizes, and two
won a Tony Award for best play. He was awarded the Gold Medal in
Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in
1980, and in 1996 he received both the Kennedy Center Honors and the
National Medal of Arts. In 2005 he was awarded the special Tony Award
for Lifetime Achievement.
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