Review unquestionably one of the wittiest and funniest plays albee. After twenty yearsand preceded by offbroadways signature theatre companys retrospective and critically successful offbroadway runs of three tall women, the play about the baby, and tiny alice edward albee returned to broadway with the goat or who is sylvia. By edward albee the goat, or who is sylvia broadway edition reprint. Like a delicate balance, one of edward albee s three pulitzer prize winning dramas, the goat or who is sylvia. The idea of the play a man forms a relationship with a goat, and it tears his.
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