US Elections

Edward Albee in conversation

5 July 2009

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

The US Studies Centre is pleased to support the visit to Sydney by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American playwright Edward Albee. On Sunday 5 July, Sydney Theatre Company and Inscription present Edward Albee in conversation with writer, performer and director Jonathan Biggins.

Edward Albee has defined modern American theatre with four decades of provocative, controversial and brilliant plays exploring contemporary American society. The New Yorker has called him "the greatest living playwright" and in 2005, Albee received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

Albee is perhaps best known for his classic 1962 drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which won both the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Albee's other groundbreaking plays include A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women and The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?

In this, the legendary artist's only public speaking forum during a rare visit to Australia, Albee will discuss how theatre has changed in the fifty years he has practiced it, and how he has, if he has, as well as the role of the arts in America and the shifting landscape with the new US government.