The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee.

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, a full-length play written by Edward Albee, premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on March 10, 2002 where it ran for 309 performances. The European Premiere took place at Vienna's English Theatre in 2003 and a production opened in London in 2004.

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Damian Lewis makes an eagerly anticipated return to the West End stage in Edward Albee’s black comedy about a family in crisis. Darkly comic and at times disturbing, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?centres on the consequences of an improbable and impossible love affair by the father of a family, which tears apart a couple and their teenage son.

Theatre review: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Apart from some terrific acting, there’s precious little in Edward Albee’s absurdist play to entertain. Christopher Hart.

About the Author. Edward Albee was born in Virginia, 1928. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.

Directed by Richard E.T. White. With Pamela Reed, Don McManus, Charles Shaw Robinson, Joseph J. Parks. Professionally successful, happily married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat.

Damian Lewis has swapped the high life of U.S. TV drama to tread the boards in West End theatre production The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Home; U.K.. synopsis, Damian stars as Martin, 'a middle.

The story of The Goat, or who is Sylvia? Is one that a synopsis cannot do justice to, and one that would involve far too many spoilers. So let me just say that this is a story about a family in crisis. A major crisis. The kind of crisis that seems impossible to recover from.

A quintessential moment, Martin’s first mention that Sylvia is a goat, also has both characters facing away from the audience, and the impact of the statement therefore loses much of its resonance. As Martin’s infuriated and baffled wife Stevie, Elana Elyce instills much-needed energy.

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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