Original upload date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:47:53 GMT
Edward Albee, award-winning playwright stepped on stage to give a series of improvisational performances for the benefit of LongHouse Reserve on July 10, 1999.
A long-time resident, Albee does most
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of his writing in Montauk, NY, where he remains an avid supporter of LongHouse Reserve.
Mr. Albee uses a proven technique to define the character by incorporating audience suggestions as a point of departure for his dramatic sketch.
In these performances Mr. Albee plays a sixty year old Hungarian poet, an aging Palestinian terrorist, and an East Hampton Town resident speaking to a deer in the garden.
Albee's first play, "The Zoo Story" premiered in 1959 in Berlin, and he has been active in the theatre ever since. His first full-length play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" has been performed over 600 times.
The master playwright has won three Pulitzer Prizes, two Tony's, as well as a Drama Critics Circle Award and an Outer Circle Critics Award.
Produced by Neal Marshad for LongHouse Reserve.
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