Edward Albee is a master at manipulating your feel. It is funny, awkward, unsettling, real, shocking, enlightening and as I left the theatre I had a silly grin on my face that could not be removed despite all my efforts and some guilt.
Exploring and challenging the limits of society and what “normal” is what the arts should do that this does it very well. A truly great play of our time, when this liberal society has so may rules and is so closed minded.
Each character is real, even the goat. Everything changes in moments, perhaps, we are all only moments away from world changing moments. The family reaction is primitive and challenging and unexpected, but clear and understandable. The detail in the word games and shows an amazing understanding of the human brain. What is really going on here?
Apparently "Who is Silvia" from Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Proteus is in love with Julia but then falls for Silvia and will do anything to win Silvia over. Silvia’s intentions naturally lie elsewhere, but Proteus is blind to this, and schemes and calculates. Julia does not give up here pursuit of Proteus. humm. (from Wikipedia)
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