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Edward Albee’s psychodrama spells out the crueller fortunes of life for three ages of the same woman, leavened with some comic sympathy
Existential dread comes very well-upholstered in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s dismaying and luxurious Three Tall Women. This is probably Albee’s most personal play, a barbed-wire wreath laid at the grave of his adoptive mother, but he has filtered his experience through an absurdist lens. The play’s vision of life aligns with Beckett’s: darkness on one side, darkness on the other, some pain and disappointment in the middle. “That’s it,” one character says. “You start and then you stop. Don’t be so soft.”
No one has ever accused Albee of being soft, but in director Joe Mantello’s revival, starring Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill, there is a grudging sympathy underlying the spite.
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