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Listening
Author(s):
Edward Albee
Constructed with the precision of a musical composition, and described by Clive Barnes as "a chamber opera and a symbolic poem about communication," the play juxtaposes three characters--"The Man," "The Woman," and "The Girl"--and sifts through the tangled relationship which they have evidently shared. The Man is amiable but distant; The Woman acerbic and bitter; The Girl is perhaps mad--a catatonic who has destroyed her own child. Elliptical in form and redolent with evocative overtones, the play weaves together its strands of conversation and soliloquy into a meaningful pattern of events--underscoring the inescapable fact that while we may listen we do not always hear, and our lives, for better or worse, are shaped accordingly.
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Genre(s): | Not Available | Time Period(s): | Not Available | Play Type: | Play | Runtime: | Not Available | Acts: | Not Available | Set Complexity: | Not Available | Set Information: | Not Available | Year First Published: | Not Available | Total Characters: | 3 | Male Characters: | 1 | Female Characters: | 2 | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | Cost: | FEE: $25 per performance Royalty/cost information prone to change. Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | ISBN: | Not Available |
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