… at the Arena Stage. Along with anything written by Frank Zappa, this play’s script has provided UD with sayings that have enriched her life over decades.
Albee’s stuff comes in handy mainly in domestic situations…
YOU CAN TAKE IT. YOU MARRIED ME FOR IT!
THAT IS A DESPERATELY SICK LIE.
These are for sure my favorites, but there are others.
March 6th, 2011 at 11:33AM
You are very lucky. This is one of the greatest American plays of the twentieth century, and the power of its messages are not at all lessened by the famous Taylor-Burton movie, which I was sufficiently fortunate to view when it first came out. Albee’s powerful, scorching insights on marriage, gender, age and the interweavings of childhood and parenthood, memory and illusion, have stood the test of time, and are not soon forgotten. I rememberm as i left the mobviehouse where I first saw the film emptying of its audience, still pushing their minds through what they had just witnessed. This, I told myself then, and I have never forgotten since, is the meaning of great art.
March 7th, 2011 at 1:54AM
“I’ve gotten the ice, Martha.”
“It’s ‘I’ve GOT the ice, George.”
“No, I’ve gotten the ice is perfectly correct. It’s just a little archaic. Like you, Martha.”
March 7th, 2011 at 3:08AM
Tony: Yes! Another winner.