Three Tall Women

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMARecently revived on Broadway in a production directed by Joe Mantello starring two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson and Tony winner Laurie MetcalfEarning a Pulitzer and Best Play awards from the Evening Standard Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle among others when it premiered Edward Albee has in Three Tall Women created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious acerbic old woman lies dying she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee’s frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit pain and laughter and his observations tell us about forgiveness reconciliation and our own fates. But it is his probing portrait of the three women that reveals Albee’s genius. Separate characters on stage in the first act yet actually the same “everywoman” at different ages in the second act these “tall women” lay bare the truths of our lives—how we live how we love what we settle for and how we die. Edward Albee has given theatergoers critics and students of drama reason to rejoice.