The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee

The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?

Highlights

American

Synopsis

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.

The playwright himself describes it this way: Every civilization sets quite arbitrary limits to its tolerances.

The play is about a family that is deeply rocked by an unimaginable event and they solve that problem.

It is my hope that people will think afresh about whether or not all the values they hold are valid.

Themes

Publication

Year Published
2003
ISBN 10
1585673641
ISBN 13
9781585673643
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Print Length
112 pages
Place Published
Woodstock, USA
Language
English
LCCN
2003042090
LCC
PS3551.L25 G63 2003
DCC
812/.54
Print
The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? is a American play written by and published by Overlook Press in Woodstock, USA, 2003. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781585673643 and an ISBN-10 of 1585673641.
Digital
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