For the first time in one volume, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning playwright Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo collects Homelife and The Zoo Story.
“An essential and heartening experience . . . If Homelife is an openhanded slap, The Zoo Story is a gut punch with a closed fist. Edward Albee is a voice unparalleled in American theater.” —New York Times
More than 50 years after penning The Zoo Story, master playwright Edward Albee wrote a prequel to this classic. Homelife contains the events in Peter’s life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter’s wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park.
Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays:
A Delicate Balance,
Seascape and
Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include
The Zoo Story,
The Death of Bessie Smith,
The Sandbox,
The American Dream,
Tiny Alice,
All Over,
Listening,
The Lady from Dubuque,
The Man Who Had Three Arms,
Finding the Sun,
Fragments,
Marriage Play and
The Lorca Play.
Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.