![]() Along that brick road paved with yellowed clippings and golden rules, I spoke to various people inside and outside the theatre world to gauge the temperature of their interest in the subject and test the tenor of their perceptions. The person you meet at the end can’t help being dwarfed by the reputation that precedes him in the form of controversy and celebration, Pulitzer Prizes and bad reviews. To interview Albee, as I recently did, is to encounter an icon of American culture, and preparing turns out to be a little bit like approaching the Wizard of Oz. I have never met anyone who has only one feeling about Edward Albee. ![]() ![]() “Sordid, sick and cesspool deep!” With a kind of perverse pride, the 1970 paperback edition of Tiny Alice trumpets quotes like this from those who denounce the author as well as those as “the most distinguished playwright in the history of American theatre.” For book-cover copy, this is a rare instance of truth-in-advertising. ![]()
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