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Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize

From the great American playwright of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, "The Zoo Story" and "A Delicate Balance" comes the intriguing and compelling story of a 92 year old woman as she reflects on her life with a mixture of shame, pleasure, regret, and satisfaction.

She recalls the fun of her childhood and her marriage, when she had an overwhelming optimism for her future. Yet she bitterly recalls the negative events that resulted in regret: her husband’s extramarital affairs and his death, and the estrangement of her son.

Albee’s frank dialogues about everything from incontinence to infidelity are charged with wit, pain and laughter, and tell us about forgiveness, and reconciliation. This probing portrait of the three women reveals Albee’s genius. Separate characters on stage in the first act, yet actually the same “everywoman” at different ages in the second act, he lays bare the truths of our lives, how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die.

Produced by Jeff Boatright
Directed by Rosemary Hartman

PARENTAL NOTE: Play contains mature themes and dialogue inappropriate for children. On a movie rating scale, PG-13.

About the director:
Rosemary Hartman has directed more than 30 main stage productions in the Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia areas. Most recently, she received LTA’s “Best Director of a Play Award for “TWIGS.” Other awards include The British Players prestigious Ruby Griffith Best Overall Performance of a Play for “Suddenly Last Summer" (Port City) and Runner up for Best Overall Production of a Play for “A Streetcar Named Desire” (TAP).  NVTA awards include “Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn” (Port City), “Last Night Oscar Wilde Went to Reading Gaol,” (LTA) and “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers.” (Encore Players) Some of her favorite directing experiences include “Lettice and Lovage” (LTA), “The Miracle Worker” (TAP), “The Foreigner” (LTA) and “Suddenly Last Summer/Portrait of a Madonna” (Port City).

During her long and varied career, She has been a business manager (LTA), an Artistic Director (The Encore Players) , President of the New Hampshire Community Theatre Association and has served on the Board of the New England Theatre Conference. She has also produced and stage managed many community and professional theatre productions. As an actress, recent appearances have included the role of “Yente” in “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre in Wytheville, VA, and in 2005 she created the role of Evelyn in the world premier of Horizons Theatre’s production of “The Body Project” in Washington, DC. Ms. Hartman studied theatre at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Maryland. She served a year’s internship in directing and stage management at The Folger Theatre.

About the playwright:
Edward Albee was born in Washington, DC on March 12, 1928.

Some of his major works include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, The Play About the Baby, and The Goat - or - Who Is Sylvia? Albee's first and major "hit" was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway in 1963, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill. A revival of that play received the Tony Award for Best Play in 2005. Mr. Albee was also awarded a Tony for Lifetime Achievement in 2005.

Albee has received three Pulitzers, for A Delicate Balance in 1966, Seascape in 1975 and in 1994, Albee experienced a much-awaited success with the play Three Tall Women which earned Albee his third Pulitzer Prize and his first commercial hit in over a decade. Three Tall Women also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Albee’s dramatic style embraces existentialism, absurdism, as well as the metaphysical. His plays tend to puzzle. They are also full of satirically witty and sharp dialogue. The Albee audience consists of those who value being challenged and appreciate theater that, if it existed, would fit into the School of Anti-Complacency.

Today Albee remains active, writing, producing and directing his plays, as well as teaching at the School of Theatre of the University of Houston and giving lectures on his work at colleges around the country.

Production Dates: March 24 - April 15, 2006
Auditions: January 14 & 15, 2006

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.