Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Albee’s early one-act plays
- 3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 4 “Withered age and stale custom”
- 5 Albee’s 3½
- 6 Albee’s threnodies
- 7 Minding the play
- 8 Albee’s monster children
- 9 “Better alert than numb”
- 10 Albee stages Marriage Play
- 11 “Playing the cloud circuit”
- 12 Albee’s The Goat
- 13 “Words; words... They’re such a pleasure.” (An Afterword)
- 14 Borrowed time
- Notes on further reading
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Series List
14 - Borrowed time
An interview with Edward Albee
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Albee’s early one-act plays
- 3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 4 “Withered age and stale custom”
- 5 Albee’s 3½
- 6 Albee’s threnodies
- 7 Minding the play
- 8 Albee’s monster children
- 9 “Better alert than numb”
- 10 Albee stages Marriage Play
- 11 “Playing the cloud circuit”
- 12 Albee’s The Goat
- 13 “Words; words... They’re such a pleasure.” (An Afterword)
- 14 Borrowed time
- Notes on further reading
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Series List
Summary
The place: Mr. Albee's loft apartment in Tribeca, New York City.
The time: 10a.m., Friday, November 14, 2003.
Let's begin with right now. Are you currently working on any new writing?
Yes, I am. Let's see, the last thing that was done in New York - of new work - was The Goat, which is going into rehearsal next month in London, at the Almeida. And I've accepted a commission from the Hartford Stage Company to write a play to go with my play The Zoo Story. It's normally an hour long, and I have to keep approving other people's plays, or another one of my own, to be done with it. And it occurred to me that even though I was fairly happy with The Zoo Story when I wrote it, I really didn't do a full job on the character of Peter. Jerry we know very well. So I'm writing a play about Peter, before he meets Jerry, called Homelife. Peter at home with his wife, Ann, and how this affects his reaction to Jerry - to the extent that it does.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee , pp. 231 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005