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Indlæser... The Play About The Baby (1998)af Edward Albee
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The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple--Boy and Girl--have a new baby, whom an older couple--Man and Woman--have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, "If you don't have the wound of a broken heart, how can you know you're alive?" Brutal loss--the loss of a child or childhood self--has been a recurring Albee theme, and Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to The Play About the Baby when he called it a "funny, harrowing dramatic fable ... as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver." No library descriptions found. |
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One popular theory about all of this has been that, in fact, the young couple are only deluding themselves and that their baby never existed. (Freudian Slip Department: When discussing the piece with others, I have sometimes found myself referring to it as The Play Without the Baby.) But Albee himself has confirmed that the baby is meant to be real even though we never actually see it. Even if the details of the story and their ultimate meaning remain head-scratchingly elusive, the overall themes presented here -- corruption of innocence, the often scarifying relationships between parents and their children, the blurring of reality and fantasy -- are as clear and potent as they are in so many of Albee's previous works, most pertinently Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (According to Albee, the young couple in TPATB "realize they cannot take the pain and loss of having a baby, so it ceases to be real." This points up the author's thesis that "reality is determined by our need." Ain't it the truth!)