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Three Tall Women

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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. The writing is luminous. The characters are rich and dynamic. There is humor, and wit, and pain, and pathos. Perhaps Albee is just too smart for the average theatre goer. However, I love that he doesn't pander. I love that he writes smart. I love that he challenges the audience to think. "Three Tall Women" keeps you thinking long after reading it. Thank you, Mr. Albee.

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. Albee is able to portray in an unsual way his true feelings about his background as well as his atitude towards the characters that he portrays. I want his plays to go on and on! The characters are very real, and for the most part very sad.Life goes on in the real world even with people that he portrays being a part of it.

Once I figured out what the play was about I really enjoyed it, before I just thought it was very good and quite amusing. The fact of figuring it out actually makes the play more interesting is a sign of a genius playwrite and incredible / timeless story.

I saw "Three Tall Women" at the contemporary arts center in new orleans two summers ago. It was simply brilliant. I was living across the street from Albee when he was in the city working on "Fragments." Unfortunately I didn't get to see the show or get the opportunity to meet him in person. His ability to evoke so much emotion from the viewer astounded me. I was crying a LOT...during this play. Edward Albee is an extremely clever man.

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!

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 times I have always found something new, and noticed something that I haven't before