Dramaworks to screen ‘Stages of Edward Albee’ documentary
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Imagine making a film featuring stars such as Kathleen Turner, Bill Pullman, Bill Irwin and Marian Seldes. Then throw in leading playwrights John Guare, Tony Kushner and Terrence McNally.It&s quite possible, if your subject is playwright Edward Albee, as James Dowell and John Kolmvakis discovered when they set out to make the documentary The Stages of Edward Albee.Albee, who wrote Who&s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the Pulitzer Prize winners A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women, is one the most revered playwrights in American theater.The film will be shown in a by-invitation screening Monday and three public screenings Tuesday at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, where a production of A Delicate Balance closes Sunday. Dowell will attend the screenings.The show is Dramaworks& seventh Albee play and its biggest grossing straight play ever. &Albee is a hot ticket here in town,& producing artistic director William Hayes said.He ran across the film while researching A Delicate Balance, which he directed. &I thought it would be great to enhance the experience of seeing the play by showing the documentary,& he said.The film is the third in a triptych of documentaries the partners made about New York-based artists. The others are Sleep in a Nest of Flames, about surrealist poet Charles Henri Ford, and Ned Rorem: Word and Music, about the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist.The filmmakers have admired Albee&s work for a long time but might never have approached him had it not been for Rorem, who is a longtime friend of Albee&s.Buoyed by that connection, the filmmakers dared to approach Albee, who has a reputation for not suffering fools lightly, when they spotted him at a subway station in New York. When they asked him to participate in the Rorem film, he readily agreed. They didn&t dare broach the topic of making a film about him.But Rorem did, at a dinner party celebrating the completion of the Rorem film. &After the meal, he said to Edward out of the blue, &When are you going to let these boys do a film about you?&& Dowell said.Albee eventually consented. The filmmakers conducted about a half-dozen interviews at Albee&s loft in New York City and his summer home in Montauk, N.Y., over two years.Things got off to a rocky start. &Just before the camera went on, he pointed a finger in my face and said, &It&s All-be, not Al-be,&& Dowell recalled. &It almost threw me off balance.&During the most extensive interview, conducted at Montauk, Dowell questioned Albee while painting his portrait. The film opens and closes with the portrait session and returns to it between interviews with other figures.Albee is not an easy subject in the sense that &he&s not easy and affable,& Dowell said. &But he&s highly articulate and intelligent. Once he wants to answer something, he will do it in an intelligent and concise way.&The playwright has earned the admiration and affection of many, as is clear from their comments in the film. The documentary covers Albee&s life and works, and includes readings of scenes from his plays. Turner and Irwin read scenes from Who&s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Irwin performs a passage from The Zoo Story and Seldes portrays all three main characters in speeches from Three Tall Women.&We were humbled by the level of talent involved,& Dowell said.The film debuted in September at the Dallas Video Festival. The screening at Dramaworks is the second time it&s been shown publicly. Albee has not seen it but is expected to participate in a panel discussion during a March 27 screening in New York.The filmmakers hope Albee, who is notoriously protective of his plays, will accept the documentary as a fair portrayal. &It&s not a fawning portrait,& Dowell said. &It&s a candid and positive portrait, because he&s someone we admire tremendously.&
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出门在外也不愁Edward Albee
( born March 12, 1928, Washington, DC)
Edward Albee burst onto the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s
with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment
of that decade and the transition from the placid Eisenhower years to
the turbulent 1960s. Albee's plays, with their intensity, their grappling
with modern themes, and their experiments in form, startled critics and
audiences alike while changing the landscape of American drama. He was
unanimously hailed as the successor to Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams,
and Eugene O'Neill.
Albee's 25 plays form a body of work that is recognized as unique, uncompromising,
controversial, elliptical, and provocative. A canon that is, as Albee
himself describes it "an examination of the American Scene, an attack
on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation
of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against
the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
No wonder, then, that this forty-year career has seen as many commercial
failures as successes. The '80s, in fact did not yield a single Albee
play that could be considered a commercial hit. "There is not always a
great relationship between popularity and excellence," he says. "You just
have to make the assumption you're doing good work and go on doing it."
Perseverance
his most recent drama reclaimed Albee's
position as America's leading dramatists. Three Tall Women enjoyed
a stunning, sold-out success in New York and has been staged across the
country and around the world. It received Best Play awards from the New
York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle and earned Albee his
third Pulitzer Prize, an honor that is bested only by Eugene O'Neill's
four awards.
Born in Washington, D.C., Albee was adopted as an infant by Reid Albee,
the son of Edward Franklin Albee of the powerful Keith-Albee vaudeville
chain. He was brought up in great affluence and sent to select preparatory
and military schools. Almost from the beginning he clashed with the strong-minded
Mrs. Albee, rebelling against her attempts to make him a success as well
as a sportsman and a member of the Larchmont, New York, social set. Instead,
young Albee pursued his interest in the arts, writing macabre and bitter
stories and poetry, while associating with artists and intellectuals considered
objectionable by Mrs. Albee.
Albee left home when he was 20 and moved to New York's Greenwich Village,
where he took to the era's counterculture and avant-garde movements. After
using up his paternal grandmother's modest legacy, he took a variety of
menial jobs until 1959 when The Zoo Story made him a famous playwright,
first in Europe, where it premiered in Berlin, and then in New York. This
short work, in which a bum entices an executive to commit murder, together
with 1962's full-length Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a brutal
portrait of a hard-drinking academic couple, and 1966's A Delicate
Balance, his first Pulitzer Prize-winner, created the mold for American
drama for the rest of our century.
Throughout his career, Albee has shown a fascination for a wide variety
of theatrical styles and subjects. The Zoo Story conveyed the alienation
and disillusionment of the existentialist drama. In 1959, Albee explored
American race relations in the southern Gothic atmosphere of The Death
of Bessie Smith. He gave birth to American absurdist drama with The
Sandbox (1959) and The American Dream (1960). Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance are classic studies
of American family life in the mode of O'Neill's Long's Day's Journey
into Night. 1964's Tiny Alice is a metaphysical dream play
in which Albee explores his persistent theme of reality versus illusion,
this time out in mystical, abstract, and even religious terms. In 1975,
Albee won his second Pulitzer Prize with Seascape, which combined
theatrical experiment and social commentary in a story about a retired
vacationing couple who meet a pair of sea lizards at the beach. The
Lady from Dubuque (1979) is a fable in which the title character is
none other than death.
Death, in fact, has been a running character throughout his works. In
spite of the wide range in styles and subject matter, Albee has said that
all his plays ?confront being alive and how to behave with the awareness
of death. Every one of my plays is an act of optimism, because I make
the assumption that it is possible to communicate with other people. The
people who think Virginia Woolf was a love story are a lot closer
to the truth than those who think it was a tragedy. At least there was
communication in that marriage." And like George and Martha, whose long
night's journey finally ends in day, Albee and his public have communicated
with each other ever since they met--through periods love and exhilaration,
anger and neglect, truce and reconciliation.
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