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The sandbox by edward albee full text
The sandbox by edward albee full text







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With the possible exception of the little play The Sandbox, which takes thirteen minutes to perform, I don’t think anything I’ve done has worked out to perfection. I had a number of quarrels with the production, but then I usually end up with quarrels about all of my plays. I liked doing the adaptation of Purdy’s book. I haven’t changed my feeling about Malcolm. I don’t feel intimidated by either the unanimously bad press that Malcolm got or the unanimously good press that some of the other plays have received.

the sandbox by edward albee full text

Well, I retain for all my plays, I suppose, a certain amount of enthusiasm. The resultant commercial catastrophe and quick closing of the play apart, how does this affect your own feeling about the piece itself? It had as close to one hundred percent bad notices as a play could get. One of your most recent plays was an adaptation of James Purdy’s novel Malcolm. But Albee’s barbed, poised, and elegantly guarded public press style took over after the phrasing of the first question-though perhaps it was intermittently penetrated during the course of the talk. The interviewer and subject have been both friends and composer-writer collaborators for about eighteen years. He appeared, as the climate of the afternoon demanded, somewhat uncomfortable. He was as yet unshaven for the day and his neo-Edwardian haircut was damply askew. Still, it is in his country house that he generally seems most at ease, natural, at home.Īlbee was dressed with a mildly ungroomed informality. With the exception of a handsome, newly built tennis court (in which the playwright takes a disarmingly childlike pleasure and pride) and an incongruously grand Henry Moore sculpture situated high on a landscaped terrace that commands a startling view of the sea, the simplicity of the place leaves one with the curious impression that the news of the personal wealth his work has brought him has not quite reached the playwright-in-residence at Montauk. Keeping in mind his luxuriously appointed house in New York City’s Greenwich Village, one finds the country place dramatically modest by comparison. The interview happened on a scalding, soggy-aired Fourth of July in a sunny room in Albee’s small, attractive country house in Montauk, Long Island. GradeSaver, 4 August 2021 Web.Interviewed by William Flanagan Issue 39, Fall 1966

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Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Sandbox Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format GradeSaver "The Sandbox Summary". She tells him that the way he said it was very nice, that he has a certain quality. She lets him say that he is the Angel of Death, and he kisses her on the forehead. She continues to speak and he tells her that he has a line to say. The Young Man comes over to her and tries to silence her. Mommy and Daddy put away their mourning and exit. Grandma then dies and the lights return to brightest day. Grandma tells them to be quiet as it hasn't happened yet.

the sandbox by edward albee full text

Mommy and Daddy recognize that it is night and know that death is coming for Grandma when they hear an offstage rumble. The Musician begins to play again as the lights dim and it becomes night. They made space for her under the stove and gave her an army blanket, and her own dish. Grandma then tells the audience that Mommy married Daddy, a very rich man, and they brought her from the farm to live in their home in the city.

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He doesn't know, as he is an actor and the movie studios haven't given him one yet. Grandma asks the Musician to stop playing, and then notices the Young Man and asks him his name.

the sandbox by edward albee full text

Her husband died when she was 30 and she was left to bring up Mommy all by herself. Grandma addresses the audience, explaining that she is 86 and was married at 17, to a farmer. After Mommy and Daddy take their seats at the front of the stage, Grandma throws sand at Mommy with a plastic shovel that is in the sandbox. The pair bring out Grandma, who looks afraid, and place her in the sandbox. A Musician comes onstage and Mommy cues him to begin playing. Mommy asks Daddy his opinion, but he doesn't have much of an opinion. They are looking for a place to put Grandma. Mommy and Daddy enter Daddy says he's cold, and Mommy says it's warm as toast. The play opens with a Young Man doing calisthenics behind a sandbox at the brightest time of day.









The sandbox by edward albee full text