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The Rise of Inhumanities

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  • ABOUT Edward Albee

    Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance and Three Tall Women. His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition.

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In a democracy we can have everything that we want, and get exactly what we deserve.       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 10, 1996.

Edward Albee, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the most important dramatists of contemporary world theater, turns birth and death into an analysis of our times—a warning about the emptiness of our lives, the threats to our communal nation, our culture, our educational system and our moral health. His works include: The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, The Sandbox, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Seascape, and Three Tall Women, among others.

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