Fri 5/20-6/11
Edward Albee is one of the most significant playwrights of the 20th century. From his first play, The Zoo Story, in 1958, he created a distinctive voice within the larger context of the Absurdist theater then being practiced by playwrights like Beckett and Ionesco. That voice went mainstream with his 1962 work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, famously made into a movie starring contentious lovebirds Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Although he’s now 88, he continued to crank out new work until well into the 2000s. One of his more successful recent works was Three Tall Women, written in the early ’90s, which netted him his third Pulitzer Prize for Drama, among other awards. It revolves around three women of very different generations who during the course of the play become alter egos for each other.
convergence-continuum theater is now producing the play, directed by Tom Kondilas and featuring Lucy Bredeson-Smith, Teresa McDonough and Sarah Kunchik as the three women. It runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, through Sat 6/11. Tickets are $15.