Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

The play “three tall women” by Edward Albee is written in two parts and has 110 pages.

It was written in 1991 and published in 1994, in what same year it won the Pulitzer

Prize for Drama and was Edward Albee’s third Pulitzer Prize winning book after “A

Delicate Balance” and “Seascape”. His most famous play “Who’s afraid of Virginia

Woolf?” received the New York Drama critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Edward Albee was born on March 12th 1928 somewhere in Virginia. His biological

parents gave him up for adoption when he was two weeks old and he was taken up by

Reed and Frances Albee. His new father was the heir to the famous Keith-Albee Theatre

Circuit in Columbia, and thus it was Edwards’s fortune to be surrounded by wealth and

privilege from nearly the beginning of his life.

Albee’s relationship with his adoptive parents was fraught with discord and he freely

admits that he was a problem child.

There was, however, one member of the family that he had a very close relationship with.

That person was Frances Albee’s mother, Grandma Cotta, who inspired him to write the

play “Three Tall Woman”.

In the play he deals with his relationship with his mother from a different perspective.

Also did Edward leave his home when he was eighteen because of his bad relationship

with his parents and his homosexuality, what is the same as the son of the main character

in “Three Tall Women”.

The first act of the play takes in the bedroom