Absurd Theatre
For some reason I don't remember, someone* pointed out this column, "Which Theatre Is the Absurd One?", written by Edward Albee and published in the New York Times on 25 February 1962.
The column is apparently a defense of the creativity and vitality of the modern "avant-garde theatre", but it wanders and never quite makes its point, which is beside my point anyway.
I was fascinated to read this '62 biography of Albee at the bottom of the piece:
Edward Albee is a 33-year-old playwright with several plays to his credit, perhaps the best- known of which is "The Zoo Story." He is at present working on a new play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for fall production.
What a moment of potential is captured in that paragraph.
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*I think it was Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post.