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The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
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Author: Edward Albee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 55 Pub. Date: 2003 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 08222197610 ISBN-13: 9780822219767 Cast Size: 1 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? is a full-length drama by
Edward Albee. A married woman discovers her husband is having
an affair with a goat in Edward Albee's Tony
Award-winning play. Known for works such as Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, Edward Albee's four-hander not only shows a
family in crisis, but also challenges taboos and moral judgement.
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? is about a profoundly
unsettling subject: the irrational, confounding, and
convention-thwarting nature of love. Martin-a hugely successful
architect who has just turned fifty-leads an ostensibly ideal life
with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his
best friend that he is also in love with a goat named Sylvia, he sets
in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in
tatters. A shocking play about marital infidelity and the devastation
of a family, Edward Albee's boundary-pushing play is
a hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of
social constraints on the individual expression of love.
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? premiered in 2002 at the John
Golden Theatre and was Albee's return to Broadway after an absence of
19 years. The play ran for over 300 performances and went on to win
all the major awards for best new play of the year in 2002: Tony, New
York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle; and
was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play has become a
favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been performed in regional, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 1 female, 3 male
What people say:
"The Goat is
about a profoundly unsettling subject, which for the record is not
bestiality but the irrational, confounding, and convention-thwarting
nature of love. Powerful [and] extraordinary…Mr. Albee still asks
questions that no other major American dramatist dares to ask."
— The New York Times
"…as challenging – and …
as outrageously funny – as theater gets." — New
York Post
"…as fine a piece of
theatrical art as any Edward Albee has created—and perhaps boldest
of them all." — Houston Chronicle
"The edgiest, most fervently
debated Broadway play of 2002…." — Seattle Times
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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