Seascape: A Play
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THE STORY: On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then, suddenly, they are... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0689105398
ISBN13:9780689105395
Release Date:March 1975
Publisher:Atheneum Books
Length:135 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
A masterpiece
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Simply a masterpiece of American theatre. I don't think this play will ever be revived on Broadway because it really asks the audience to think throught the entire play.
"What's it all about Albee?"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
"Seascape" is a literate and eloquent rumination on evolution and the meaning of life. Albee's use of language both impressive and economical. As is his want, the author provokes his audience to challenge prescribed ideology. How rare and refreshing to find an author willing to demand that his audience participate in the theatrical experience by requiring them to question, explore and contemplate.
Alien, point-blank, green and actual.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
It has characters and a plot, and you could compare it with Wallace Stevens's "Arrival at the Waldorf" or Valéry's "Graveyard by the Sea," but all there is to its two acts is an evocation of the seaside---coming from town, spending the day, leaving with the tang of iodine in your nostrils.
His best, along with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This play, about the questions and answers of human evolution, is fascinating. It won the Pulitzer for a reason, and I highly recommend finding out that reason on your own. It's too bad this play has fallen into obscurity-- I think it is one of the best American dramas thus far. Brilliant. Read (or watch, if you get the chance) this play and shiver.
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