Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo
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- Event has passed (Fri Jun 5, 2009 - Sun Jul 5, 2009)
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Directed by Rebecca Bayla TaichmanAmerican master Edward Albee's (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A.C.T.'s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) new spellbinder is a meticulously calibrated and brutal look at the lives of three New Yorkers. The story opens with Peter, a tweedy book editor, and his wife, Ann, whose everyday conversation takes an unexpected turn into dangerously personal territory. It's the kind of talk that can drive a husband out for a walk—to Central Park, where Jerry, a desperate outcast, awaits. An unforgettable pairing of Albee's original The Zoo Story with a freshly penned prequel, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo (formerly titled Peter and Jerry) bares its teeth to threaten the delicately balanced world its characters inhabit.
"Brilliant! The work has bark AND bite." —Variety
"A darkly comic and thrilling glimpse of characters smashed up against the bars of social convention and their secret, suppressed identities. The more acidly articulate Albee's characters are, the more detached from reality and each other they become. Welcome to his world." —Time Out New York
"Tense, truthful, and hypnotic" —New York Daily News
"Emotionally erratic and ultimately chilling" —CurtainUp
"Tense, shocking, sexually charged, and loaded with the singsong, abstract dialogue that was so powerful in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? One of the season's must-see shows." —Show Business
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