The American Dream & The Zoo Story
Author: Edward Albee
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as “unique … brilliant … a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order.” The story of one of America’s most….Read More
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