The Zoo Story

Name: The Zoo Story
Author: Edward Albee

by Edward Albee

Absurdist one-act play about stranger's unexpected confrontation in urban park

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Edward Albee

The foremost American absurdist playwright, Albee fused the European Theatre of the Absurd with American realism to create corrosive domestic dramas. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is one of the most shattering plays in the American canon. He won three Pulitzer Prizes over a long career.

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