| Three Tall Women
at Circle Theatre 230 W. Fourth St. Fort Worth, TX 76102 When: Previews
Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. About
the event
Seldom has a single play had as much impact on an
author's reputation as Three Tall Women.
By the early 1990s, Edward Albee had pretty much been
relegated to the status of has-been, or barely-was. His
early one-acts and his first Broadway show, Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, maintained their
status as classics. But everything after, including his
first two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, had gone way
out of favor.
Then Three Tall Women earned the playwright
his third Pulitzer in 1994, and everything changed. Many
of his pieces have had major revivals in New York,
London and around the country. Even one of his most
experimental – not to say recherché – efforts, The
Play About the Baby, became a major off-Broadway hit
this year. Albee once again ranks up there where the
hype placed him early in his career – as the major
American dramatist after Tennessee Williams and Arthur
Miller.
Fort Worth's Circle Theatre has made the biggest area
commitment to the Albee renaissance – productions of all
three of his Pulitzer plays, culminating in Three
Tall Women, opening this weekend.
You can check out for yourself what all the
excitement has been about. The leading character, based
on Mr. Albee's adoptive mother, is a wealthy dowager on
her last legs. She is attended by a middle-aged
companion and a younger lawyer. This is no sentimental
piece about family memories – Mr. Albee has not lost his
capacity to shock.
Director Susan Sargeant has cast Jeanne Evans,
Anne-Lynn Kettles and Nicole Case as the women and Tim
Demsky as the young male visitor.
Published in The Dallas
Morning News: 09.14.01
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