A Delicate Balance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 12, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
Opened Feb 12, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
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Meet Agnes and Tobias, a retired married couple living in a suburban neighborhood with Claire, Agnes's alcoholic sister. When the couple's adult daughter comes home after her fourth failed marriage and two friends move in unexpectedly, the "delicate balance" of their family life begins to topple. As bitter family rivalries play out over two evenings' cocktails, Albee's sharp and witty dialogue cuts straight to the heart. Agnes and Tobias are challenged to the core in this moving, caustically funny masterpiece hailed as "an evening of theatrical fireworks" by The New York Times. Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, A Delicate Balance further established Albee as a giant of the American Theater.
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A Delicate Balance, the play that won Edward Albee the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes in 1967, remains as vital and unsettling as ever in the Arena Stage's exquisitely balanced revival, directed by Pam McKinnon. Indeed, Albee has had a hand in this production, trimming bits of dialogue here and advising cast members on story dynamics, and his participation has paid rich dividends.
As always, the breakdown of the old order is part of Albee's story, but the focus here is squarely on the play's framework -- in which a couple of wealthy, old-line suburbanites are forced by sinister insecurity to doubt the ties of family and companionship. Agnes (Kathleen Chalfant) and Tobias (Terry Beaver)[...]