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a park bench, two strangers and a mysterious trip to the zooThis classic tale of two men and a park bench is class warfare at its most personal and primal. The Zoo Story displays ironic humor, unrelenting suspense, and savage intensity in a gripping Central Park encounter between a well-to-do business man and a disturbed vagrant. On his thirtieth birthday in 1958, Edward Albee quit his job with Western Union and wrote The Zoo Story in three weeks. After being rejected by several New York producers, the play had its premiere in Berlin on September 28, 1959. Four months later it was paired with Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, and won Albee recognition as a formidable talent. Albee's first major hit was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and more recently "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?," a play about a man who is having an affair with a goat, won Best Play at the 2002 Tony Awards. |
Albee once described his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen." Over the years Albee has received an impressive number of awards including three Pulitzer Prizes and an Obie award for sustained achievement in the theatre.
The Zoo Story is the third offering in TheatreZone's Actor's Revenge, a festival of actor selected plays, and is playing in repertory with Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley. Actor Michael McKeogh (Curse of the Starving Class, Cooking with Elvis) will play Jerry. McKeogh chose this classic because, "The first time I read this play it broke my heart." McKeogh chose Quebecois designer/director Julia Noulin-Merat, who has designed sets for the last four TheatreZone productions, to direct.
March 31-April 9
Chelsea Theatre Works
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Starring: Michael McKeogh & Owen Doyle
Director- Julia Noulin-Merat |
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