The show runs from 8 to 10, and tickets are $12 and $14.
Writes Silmo:
By Edward Albee, America’s greatest living playwright (”Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf” among many).
Family fights, infidelity, sex with farm animals, this play has it all… or, at least, everything that counts.
Something for everyone.
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This really gets my goat.
wake up ye posters
i am sick of haikus
Albee late can be difficult, but this one is supposed to be one of the good’uns.
Next up a long ode to a gal who… it’ll be seventy lines in blank verse and alliterative semipatterns… bwahhaoogiehog.
Live Arts bar is going wild these days, now they serve mixed drinks for every show, not just the atmospheric southern gothic tie-in drinks, etc.
Attend ye grundlings and gulliers or I start versifying again, in five, four… ay there be nudity!
and there’s free champagne after the show tonight… a perfect lead-in to the cafeteria if ever i heard one.
I’ve read and seen this play, performed with a good friend of mine (and former sitcom star) in the lead role, and despite the natural tendency to flatter the affiliations of one’s friends, I thought the play depended unfortunately upon the currency of shock. Anyone who has seen, heard of, or even partially understood the possibility of 2 girls 1 cup will, I’m afraid, not be able to fully appreciate this play in the Albee-intended manner. Although, as Albee notes, bestiality is only the occasion of the action, still, one must find the suggestion ‘provocative[]’ (http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1140799,00.html) in order to be rightly jarred the way that Albee wants.
This isn’t to say that the play isn’t a good one or that the 2-girls clan cannot enjoy it - just don’t expect to see the ’same’ play that the reviewers have seen.
Also, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’.
Back to periodic lurking.
Craig, awesome write-up.
lurking craig, before seeing it, my guess is the play is more about the absurdity of the premise, not one of those “angry young man” shock effects. in other words, a comedy, not a tragedy? after i see it, i’ll probably realize i had no idea what i am talking about right now.
colfer, you’re quite right. it is a comedy, and please (please) know it’s okay to laugh. i’ve been in plays before where the audience thought they weren’t supposed to laugh because the material was a bit twisted, it’s uncomfortable.
“the goat” is actually hilarious. and extremely well-done. so if you can, go see it! (and plan ahead - it’s already selling out.)
Yeah I pretty much had it right, the LvArs audience was in stitches laughing, and almost gave a standing ovation at the end for the actors if not the material. (The goose was over the line, though, for me. No details will be provided here
) This show will not be playing in Staunton anytime soon.
Saw The Goat last night adn it is incredible!
A sparkling sharp and smart script; Funny; Powerful; very well acted and directed.
The Goat is worth the trip to Live Arts!
Runs the The next couple of weeks Wed - Sat.
Bill LeSueur was brilliant. and hot.