About this title: Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee's most provocative, daring, and controversial play since "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Goat" won four major awards for best new play of the year (Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle). In the play, Martin, a successful architect who has just turned fifty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Overlook TP
Date Published: 2004-12-28
ISBN-13:9781585676477ISBN:1585676470
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
Description: Very good in fine dust jacket. prior owner name in ink on the front-free endpaper. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 112 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Pr
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: A & C BLACK PUBLISHERS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780413773852ISBN:041377385X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 80 pages. (80 pages) on his 50th birthday, martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the tv business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn the celebration to tragedy. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1585673641. Dustjacket and book both show almost no shelfwear. A very good/ near fine copy. No markings. Plays. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 0.6 x 8.36 x 6.44 Inches; 112 pages. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Press, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
Description: Fine/Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 1585673641 Unmarked Light Shelfwear Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play. Dj not price clipped. read more
Description: Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee's most provocative, daring, and controversial play since "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , " "The Goat" won four major awards for best new play of the year (Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
Publisher: Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781585673643ISBN:1585673641
Description: F/F. 1585673641. Clean, unmarked hard covered book in excellent condition.; 8vo. read more
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"When it was revealed to the audience that the object of the main character's affections and cause of his marital infidelity is ...a goat, there were gales of laughter. Later I wondered how the actor felt for his character when this brutal, smug but readily understandable response was nightly unleashed. I'm sure our wonderful actor William Zappa, saw it as a challenge to have us all weeping by the finale.
This is a brilliant work of art in the form of a play. To try to teach an audience through a work of art that often we will be unable, completely unable to put ourselves in another's shoes, to be totally unable to comprehend their deepest soul,yet have to go that one almost impossible step further of absolute blind faith (which religion kids itself that it demands) by trusting that their experience is fully legitimate despite our utter blindness...THAT is true acceptance.Or faith. Or whatever you want to call it.
The ending of the play is devastating but logical: What we fail to understand we feel compelled by fear to destroy. Hence gay murders exonerated by the law as "understandable". No faith or acceptance there. Or in the Holocaust. Or in....loving a goat?"
"I don't exactly know how to feel about this play. In my view, this play is about Midwestern anxiety about San Francisco values. (A San Francisco architect who has been chosen to design a city in the Midwest that is supposed to stand as an example of the American city of the future.) It's funny at times, absurd even, and on the other hand its also... well, gross. You can't really get into the issue of bestiality without feeling revulsion, can you?"
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