Edward Albee

Edward Albee (1961)

Edward Franklin Albee (Washington D.C. 1928 - ) dramaturgo norteamericano.

Ás poucas semanas de nacer adoptouno o propietario dunha cadea de teatros, o que marcou a súa traxectoria profesional.

As obras de Albee son únicas, inscritas na escola do absurdo: unha das súas grandes influencias foi Samuel Beckett.

Obras

• The Zoo Story (1958)
• The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)
• The Sandbox (1959)
• Fam and Yam (1959)
• The American Dream (1960)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Premio Tony)
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adaptado da novela de Carson McCullers)
• Tiny Alice (1964)
• Malcolm (1965) (adaptado da novela de James Purdy)
• A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize)
• Everything in the Garden (1967) (adaptado da obra de Giles Cooper)
• Box and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968)
• All Over (1971)
• Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize)
• Listening (1975)
• Counting the Ways (1976)
• The Lady From Dubuque (1977-79)
• Lolita (adaptado da novela de Vladimir Nabokov)
• The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)
• Finding the Sun (1982)
• Marriage Play (1986-87)
• Three Tall Women (1990-91, Premio Pulitzer)
• The Lorca Play (1992)
• Fragments (1993)
• The Play About the Baby (1996)
• The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2000, Premio Tony)
• Occupant (2001)
• Peter & Jerry (Primeiro acto: Homelife. Segundo acto: The Zoo Story) (2004)