A Delicate Balance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 21, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
Opened Aug 21, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
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Agnes and Tobias, a 50-something couple, want nothing more than to be left alone. However, they are saddled with Agnes's alcoholic sister. When their daughter returns home as a result of her fourth divorce and their best friends seek asylum from some unnamed "fear", tensions fray and every relationship in the house threatens to fall apart. An examination of the intricate web we all create among our friends and family and how easily it can all fall apart, A Delicate Balance sings with Albee's trademark lyricism and insight. This Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is poignant, incisive, and funny.
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However did Edward Albee, as a young man in his mid-thirties, come to understand so well the amorphous dread that accompanies advanced middle age? Mortality -- and the concomitant reckoning due -- would be its formal name, though the notion is mostly skittered around in his 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Delicate Balance, now being revived at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. David Auburn -- himself a Pulitzer-winning playwright -- helms a thrilling production of this enduringly rewarding work.
The play, true to its title, is indeed delicate. The psychic wounds on display tend to be couched within the bounds of socially permissible (if barbed) drawing-room repartee, and further muted by[...]