Edward Albee's The Goat, Or, Who Is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee

Broadway West End
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Highlights

105 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Evening Standard Award Olivier Award Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! 2002 Tony Award for Best Play Winner! 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play Finalist: 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Nominee: Three 2005 Olivier Awards, including Best New Play Nominee: Two 2004 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, including Best Play

Synopsis

On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect, prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business, but the interview uncovers a secret that threatens to turn celebration into tragedy in this Tony Award-winning drama.

The Goat or, Who is Sylvia is hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love.

Press Reviews

"The Goat is about a profoundly unsettling subject, which for the record is not bestiality but the irrational, confounding, and convention-thwarting nature of love. Powerful [and] extraordinary…Mr. Albee still asks questions that no other major American dramatist dares to ask."

— The New York Times

"As fine a piece of theatrical art as any Edward Albee has created – and perhaps boldest of them all."

— Houston Chronicle

Characters

Character
Martin
Ross
Billy
Stevie

Videos

The Goat – 2017 West End Revival Featurette

Publication

Year 2026
Binding Paperback
Edition 35359th
Pages 56
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822219767
ISBN-10 082221976X
LCCN 2004302807
LCC PS3551.L25 G63 2003b

Edward Albee's The Goat, Or, Who Is Sylvia? is a American play written by Edward Albee and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2026).

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