NYTimes.com: When Edward Albee wrote “The Lady From Dubuque” in the late 1970s, at the time his most explicit play about mortality, he was coming off his second Pulitzer Prize for drama (for “Seascape”) and was deep in the throes of alcoholism. He lashed out at actresses like Ingrid Bergman, who were offered the title role but questioned the work’s surrealist dimensions; at the same time, as he later told his biographer, Mel Gussow, he was too drunk too often to fix problems that even he saw in the second act.
Saturday, March 03, 2012
The Playwright and a Revival of His ‘Lady From Dubuque’
NYTimes.com: When Edward Albee wrote “The Lady From Dubuque” in the late 1970s, at the time his most explicit play about mortality, he was coming off his second Pulitzer Prize for drama (for “Seascape”) and was deep in the throes of alcoholism. He lashed out at actresses like Ingrid Bergman, who were offered the title role but questioned the work’s surrealist dimensions; at the same time, as he later told his biographer, Mel Gussow, he was too drunk too often to fix problems that even he saw in the second act.
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i wonder what criteria the critics used to decide that the plays weren't good. I also wonder if the plays in question can stand on their own merit and were dismissed because Albee had written one play which audiences and critics did not like, or if the plays themselves were just not that good, or not held up to the standard of the plays Albee had written before.
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