rical movement and labeled as the successor to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a smash on Broadway, was the most famous play that Edward Albee produced, written in 1962. Albee gives a clear cut, honest picture of the reality of marriage and the fears that go hand in hand with love and intimacy. The play is full of human emotions-distress, humiliation, love and hate. The play earned him the greatest-since-Miller accolade and the “depraved obscenity” tag. Pulitzer drama judges, torn between the two, select and then deny him the 1962 prize. Through the late 70’s and all of the 80’s were perhaps Edward Albee’s worst playwriting times. He received many bad reviews, did not yield a single play that could be considered a commercial hit, and was consumed by Alcoholism. Albee says the reason for this is, “There is not always a relationship between popularity and excellence. You just have to make the assumption you’re doing good work and go on doing it.” When Albee came out with Three Tall Women in 1994, it reclaimed him as one of Americas leading dramatists. It enjoyed a stunning sold-out success in New York and has been staged across the country and around the world. It received Best Play awards from both the New York Drama Critics and Outer Critics Circle and it earned Albee his third Pulitzer Prize. Edward Albee is currently still playwriting, teaching, directing, and is having plays produced around the world. ...
