Counting the Ways
by Edward Albee
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Readers have mixed feelings about the play. Some appreciate the exploration of deep themes like love and memory through a fragmented structure, while others found it lacking and difficult to engage with, particularly when comparing it to other works by the playwright.
Synopsis
In a series of blackout sketches, "He" and "She" probe into the nature of their love for one another.
Long married, but aware that time has wrought changes in their relationship, the two spar and thrust at each other in exchanges and reminiscences which are sometimes lighthearted, sometimes poignant, sometimes almost brutal.
In the end a mosaic of experience is constructed, illuminating the nature of human love and pointing up the gathering indifference that can beset those who have been perhaps too long and too closely aligned in the sharing of years.
Publication
Counting the Ways is a comedy play written by Edward Albee and published by Samuel French (1978).
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