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The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?

The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Your Price: $19.95 CDN
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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

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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