At Home At The Zoo
by Edward Albee

Name: At Home At The Zoo
Brand: Edward Albee
SKU: 9780822223177
Rating: 3.86 (316 reviews)

Off-Broadway

At Home At The Zoo Book Cover — At Home At The Zoo Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

One Act 120 mins Present Day All Men Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes British

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award

Winner! Two 1960 Obie Awards, including Distinguished Play

Synopsis

When you emerge from this impish comic playwright's glittering tribute to Molière, written entirely in verse, your head will be so dizzy with syncopated rhyme that you'll almost expect to find yourself speaking and thinking in chiming couplets...[Ives] add The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty...in this exquisitely wrought comedy-drama...a piercing portrait of the contemporary social architecture, in which the distance between people can be widened or collaps

Press Reviews

"The Zoo Story earned Albee instant acclaim as an American Beckett, attuned to rage and daily despair."
— New York Times

"The overpowering human need to connect, to make a difference to one another, flows through Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story."
— Variety

"The Zoo Story is an almost-perfect short play."
— Los Angeles Review of Books

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
PETER	—	—	—
JERRY Late thirties; not poorly dressed, but carelessly. What was once a trim and lightly muscled body has begun to go to fat; and while he is no longer handsome, it is evident that he once was. His fall from physical grace should not suggest debauchery; he has, to come closest to it, a great weariness.	male	—	Late thirties; not poorly dressed, but carelessly. What was once a trim and lightly muscled body has begun to go to fat; and while he is no longer handsome, it is evident that he once was. His fall from physical grace should not suggest debauchery; he has, to come closest to it, a great weariness.