The Goat: Or Who is Sylvia?

Actors Theatre closes its 2005-2006 season with this witty, provocative and groundbreaking parable of love and all its absurd, bewildering and shattering possibilities. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 2002, Edward Albee’s The Goat: Or Who is Sylvia? is puzzling, powerful, disturbing and deeply weird. Just as Albee did in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he has turned his attention to what looks like a conventional upper-middle-class marriage only to discover all sorts of unconventional feelings and ideas percolating beneath the surgace. His hellishly funny, yet deeply poignant vision of a rock-solid family unit shattering to bits cuts to the devastating truth that things happen in our lives, things that can be neither conprehended nor controlled, neither atoned for nor undone.