Literary Birthday – 12 March – Edward Albee
Edward Albee was born on 12 March 1928 and died on 16 September 2016.
Edward Albee Quotes
- The most profound indication of social malignancy … no sense of humour. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
- A play is fiction – and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
- Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process — it is, after all, black magic, and may lose its power if we look that particular gift horse too closely in the mouth.
- Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
- What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
- Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
- What people really want in the theatre is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Edward Albee was an award-winning American playwright. He is known for works like The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Three of his plays (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanisation of the Theatre of the Absurd. He was known for works that explored American values, marriage, and family dynamics. Albee was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972. He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in2005, the gold medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts, both in 1996. A compilation of his essays and personal anecdotes, Stretching My Mind, was published in 2005.
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