Seascape: A Play

by Edward Albee

Book Overview

THE STORY: On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then, suddenly, they are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689105398
• ISBN13: 9780689105395
• Release Date: March 1975
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A masterpiece

Simply a masterpiece of American theatre. I don't think this play will ever be revived on Broadway because it really asks the audience to think throught the entire play.

"What's it all about Albee?"

"Seascape" is a literate and eloquent rumination on evolution and the meaning of life. Albee's use of language both impressive and economical. As is his want, the author provokes his audience to challenge prescribed ideology. How rare and refreshing to find an author willing to demand that his audience participate in the theatrical experience by requiring them to question, explore and contemplate.

Alien, point-blank, green and actual.

It has characters and a plot, and you could compare it with Wallace Stevens's "Arrival at the Waldorf" or Valéry's "Graveyard by the Sea," but all there is to its two acts is an evocation of the seaside---coming from town, spending the day, leaving with the tang of iodine in your nostrils.

His best, along with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This play, about the questions and answers of human evolution, is fascinating. It won the Pulitzer for a reason, and I highly recommend finding out that reason on your own. It's too bad this play has fallen into obscurity-- I think it is one of the best American dramas thus far. Brilliant. Read (or watch, if you get the chance) this play and shiver.