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Albee's drama of an old woman coming to grips with her life and approaching death earned him his third Pulitzer.
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Albee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to another, and each faces her travails and disappointments with lots of Albee's trademark bitter wit. In the second act, however, the three women become representatives of the same person at different ages (26, 52, late 80s), and their bickering talk becomes a touching internal colloquy about life, love, and the inevitability of loss. Not since Beckett's brooding meditation Krapp's Last Tape has a playwright dealt so movingly with the subject of disappointment, aging, and death. Jack Helbig --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Plume (September 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0452274001
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452274006
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Albee's best work since "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"., November 7, 1998
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This play has imaginatively captured a lifetime of struggles one woman experiences, depicted as three women as the same woman in different ages in her life. Albee uses believable situations that are all easily relatable, emphasizing how we deal with our problems and how we deal with ourselves. I would recommend this play for theatergoers, novel readers and especially students of the theater. "Three Tall Women" should sit on the shelf next to "The Glass Menagerie" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Happy reading!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Triumph--Albee's Best, January 1, 2005
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It's unusual for a playwright to produce his or her best work in late-career, but that's what Albee has done in *Three Tall Women.* The essence of Albee's genius has long been his ability to get language to do what he wants, rather than being constrained by what language wants to do. But in *Three Tall Women*, unlike in *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf*, there's something urgent and concrete at stake: what, exactly, was the meaning of a dying woman's ninety-two year life? It's this question that fuels the gripping conflict between the play's three characters, "A", "B", and "C", who represent a single woman at ages 26, 52, and 92.

There is so much in *Three Tall Woman* for brilliant actresses to exploit that the play seems virtually certain to be a hot ticket for as long as live theater exists. It's the kind of play that, if properly cast, could sell out the National Theater of Mars, or a similarly remote venue.

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5.0 out of 5 stars There is no denying., October 13, 2004
A very remarkable life experience shared through the self. I love Albee. Such a fluid writer. Willing to expose s--t and anguish and self-loathing and nostaglia and laugh about it. This play is very direct, interesting, full of mortal longing presented though an amazingly simple concept. The three tall women, A, B and C are one woman. But at three different times in their own life. What comes is a moving sweep of life, as thought through in the future by C, the past and future by B and the past by A. What would you ask yourself if you met you twenty-five or sixty years from now? What would you say to yourself knowing what you know now to you thirty years ago? Etc., etc. There is no denying, the concept and idea of such a dialogue is ancient, and here Albee contemparizes it in the bittersweet way that life is. Read this if you love Albee, if your into philosophy, time travel, theoretical physics, feminism....There is no denying.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
Albee, brilliant as usual. He spins a tale about one woman's journey through life with three actors representing her youth, middle and old age. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Susan Scott

5.0 out of 5 stars A Stunning and Lyrical Meditation on Growing Old
Three Tall Women is Edward Albee's third play to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It may be the best play that Albee has written. Read more
Published 12 months ago by David Keymer

5.0 out of 5 stars Another emotional triumph from Albee
Personally, I don't understand it when people say that Albee's writing is cold. "Three Tall Women" is a very emotional play, heartfelt and autobiographical. Read more
Published on September 27, 2003 by I. Sondel

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbeleivable depth and feeling!
I have been studying the plays of Edward Albee, for three months. This play and the Zoo Story have me think about life and self, more then anything I have read in years. Read more
Published on February 24, 2001 by Dr. Milton J. Mintz

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Premise and Great Delivery
Once I figured out what the play was about I really enjoyed it, before I just thought it was very good and quite amusing. Read more
Published on June 28, 2000 by John C. Shaw

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic play
I saw "Three Tall Women" at the contemporary arts center in new orleans two summers ago. It was simply brilliant. Read more
Published on August 20, 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars It's worth reading more than once!
I am a student actress and Three Tall Women has been my first real script I had to work on. I found the play to be extremly interesting and even though I have read it more than 50... Read more
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