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by EMILY MEYER THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will speak April 17 at 7 p.m. in McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall. Albee, whose play The Play About the Baby opened Wednesday at the Alley Theater, teaches playwriting at the University of Houston. Albee's most important work, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, won both the New York Critic's Prize and the Tony Award for best play in 1962. His plays A Delicate Balance (1966), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1991) all won Pulitzer Prizes. "[Albee] is perhaps the greatest American playwright now active," English Professor Alan Grob said. "He's written Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which is probably one of a handful of truly great American plays of the 20th century." "If you want to see a truly great writer in the flesh, he's a truly great writer," Grob said. "His career has been both experimental and innovative, and yet he gets to the heart of the matter about American life in the last half of the 20th century." The presentation, entitled, "A Conversation with Edward Albee," will be in question and answer format and will be moderated by Linguistics Department Lecturer Douglas Mitchell. Albee directed a play by Mitchell in Amsterdam last summer, Grob said. Albee's appearance is part of the Robert Foster Cherry Endowment Reading series. - back - |
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