The Sandbox and the Death of Bessie Smith

by Edward Albee

Book Overview

Two Plays In One Book. With Fam And Yam. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452260833
• ISBN13: 9780452260832
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not Unexpected From Albee

These plays are drenched in the condemnation that we've come to expect from Edward Albee. "The Sandbox" condemns his parents (his mother was more recently condemned in "Three Tall Women"), "The Death of Bessie Smith" condemns the white establishment of the South in the pre-Civil Rights Movement days, and "Fam and Yam" condemns the old order in literature. Albee's world is soaked in doom and filled twice over in hatred for the established order. The only fault is the same one that's been brought against Bob Dylan and Sam Peckinpah -- if the establishment had to go, what's going to replace it?

Does Anyone Know what "The Sandbox" Means?

"The Sandbox" is an excellent play, very strange, thought-provoking and entertaining. If anyone has any interpretations on what it means, e mail me. Also read "The American Dream," which includes all of the same characters in "The Sandbox."