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NSU Distinguished Speakers Series Present: An Evening with Edward Albee - April 04, 2013

NSU Distinguished Speakers Series Present: An Evening with Edward Albee - April 04, 2013

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Albee’s career spans five decades, defining modern American theatre with provocative, controversial, and successful plays. He is perhaps best known for the 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a recipient of both the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards.

The playwright’s work explores intimate aspects of society. Albee’s first play, The Zoo Story, opened in 1959 and tells the story of a drifter who acts out his own murder with the unwitting aid of an upper-middle-class editor. The play is said to mark the beginning of the American absurdist movement in theatrical drama.

Albee has earned three Pulitzer Prizes for his plays: A Delicate Balance in 1967, Seascape in 1975, and Three Tall Women in 1994. He is also the recipient of multiple lifetime-achievement awards, including the Tony Award, Edward MacDowell Medal, and Pioneer Award.

According to Albee, art should be dangerous and should reveal human shortcomings and complacency—inspiring us to live more fully. To that end, his talk at NSU will explore this year’s academic theme of “Life and Death.”

  • Don Rosenblum
  • Bill Adams
  • Edward Albee

Original Date

4-4-2013

Date Digitized

4-3-2026

Keywords

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Disciplines

Film and Media Studies | Technical and Professional Writing

Original Format

MP4

Run Time

01:37:12

Repository

NSU Archives, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Distinguished Speakers Series Present: An Evening with Edward Albee - April 04, 2013

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