A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
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Book Reviews of A Delicate Balance
Book Review: Purchase for AP Literatures
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchases book for my daugther's AP Literature class. Loved the quickness of the delivery. I am always satisfied with Amazon.Book Review: Review on A Delicate Balance
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked reading it, funny interesting play. Can't wait to see it live on nov 6Book Review: Among His Best; My Favorite
Summary: 4 Stars
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" will be the play that is revived again and again over years, like Hellman's "Little Foxes," because middle-aged stars will be asked what they'd like to do and, inevitably, this is the play of choice, but like Hellman's lesser-known "Another Part of the Forest," this play by Albee is his best. It is less flashy, less loud, less dramatic, but it is deeper and more moving. It 'plays' to the women in the audience, I suppose, because Agnes is more interesting of the characters, more so than Tobias. The Harry and Edna characters are mere shadows of the lead couple, in fact one can see them as alter-egos of the two leads, their lesser or better halves, depending on how one sees it. Anyway, Harry and Edna come to visit one night and then want to stay. Their intrusion or invasion, if you like, sets the house afire, and Albee has a field day working out what in the end is a reasonably challenging moral dilemma: let them stay or throw them out? Of course, there are cultures for which this would not be such a crisis, but for WASPS issues of 'sharing' and of 'giving' get to the heart of what love is, and Albee suggests these people might not have any love to give.Book Review: Who is mad?
Summary: 4 Stars
Agnes open the play with a monologue in which she contemplates the possibility that one day, unexpectedly, she might turn mad. She says she contemplates it with astonishment, but she does not sound very astonished at all, she is more... fashinated by the idea. Her husband is listening, but not listening at all as if he could not hear Agnes, or her talking about the possibility of becoming mad was perfectly normal, or she has been mad a long time and he discounts her.I won't spoil the play, but (for me) it is an interesting investigation in what it means to be mad. Indeed it is not clear who is mad, probably all of them, possibly none. The bounderies of madness are not clearly drawn and characters seem to shift in and out of it on a continuous basis. Rules of the polite society are called into question. Is it mad to break them or to upkeep them?
The play is enjoyable to read, but not overly so, it is above everything else, enjoyable to think about.
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