Circle Theatre - Fort Worth, Texas

Directed by: Susan Sargeant
Written By: Edward Albee

Featuring:

Jeanne Evans ........................(A)
Anne-Lynn Kettles ................(B)
Nicole Case ............................(C)
Tim Demsky ............................(The Boy)

Performances:

Albee's Three Tall Women opens at Circle Theatre with previews Wednesday & Thursday, September 12th and 13th, at 7:30pm and the show's Champagne Opening takes place Friday, September 14th at 7.30pm. There will be two regularly scheduled performances Saturday, September 15th at 4:00pm and 8:30pm. Circle will not schedule a Sunday matinee performance for opening week. Three Tall Women runs through October 7.

Regular performance times are: Thursday & Friday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 4:00pm and 8:30pm; Sunday at 4:00pm. Preview tickets are $10 each. Opening night tickets are $25. All regular performances are $15 -$20 for Thursday & Saturday matinee & $20 - $25 on Friday & Saturday night. Half price student rush tickets are available at half hour on a standby basis. The Theatre also accepts Bell Helicopter coupons and Tandy Vouchers.

The Play:

Think of the final scenes in Kubrick's 2001-A Space Odyssey, in which the aging astronaut lives out his days in an elegantly furnished room, and you've got a good picture of this late, great Albee opus. The playwright openly admits this play was his way of working out his complex feelings towards his adoptive mother who, in his words, he knew "from my infancy until her death over sixty years later…"

History:

Three Tall Women, directed by Lawrence Sacharow, opened at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City in January of 1994. It subsequently ran at the Promenade Theatre for a commercial run. The New York cast was as follows: A - Myra Carter; B-Marian Seldes; C-Jordan Baker; The Boy-Michael Rhodes.

The Playwright:

Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, D.C. He was adopted at two weeks of age by millionaire Reed Albee and his wife, Francis. Albee was named for his adoptive grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, partner in the Keith-Albee Theater Circuit. Albee now spends part of every year in Texas, as a part-time faculty member at The University of Houston. He has written highly successful plays including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Zoo Story, Tiny Alice, The Play About The Baby, and his two other Pulitzer Prize plays - Seascape and A Delicate Balance.

Albee has enjoyed many successes, but also many jabs from critics and audiences alike. Critic John Simon called Albee's The Lady From Dubuque "one of the worst plays about anything ever". In 1960, Albee was hailed by the New York Post as the "next Eugene O'Neill." So obviously this enigmatic playwright has been run through the ringer, yet remains one of the most influential playwrights in American history.

When asked who his favorite playwrights were, he replied without hesitation, "Beckett, Genet, Ionesco. In that order." Playwrights that say they have been influenced by Albee include Terrence McNally, Christopher Durang, Tina Howe, David Ives, and Nicky Silver, to name a few. Three Tall Women was, after thirty years of writing plays, his first ever to receive unanimous critical praise. In response to his newfound acceptance, Able commented "Just wait. I'll be out of fashion again soon enough."

News & Reviews:

Three Tall Women is rated PG-13 due to language.