Edward Albee shows the "struggle for survival"; on a bench, somewhere in a park. The chance meeting of two people in a life and death struggle.
Two men, one cultured middle class, perhaps a book publisher, the other a relegated, perhaps an intellectual Hartz IV recipient? They meet in a public park, but can't agree on who should own the bench on which each wants to sit - but alone.
Pierre & Gilles, Gilbert & George, unforgettable male couple icons, send their regards.
Famous American playwright Edward Albee's first work, "The Zoo Story," premiered in 1959 - not in America (!) - but in Germany, at Berlin's Schillertheater. And Friedrich Luft, the pope of critics in West German theater at the time, wrote: "A thirty-year-old has taken his knowledge of Beckett, Poe and Kafka, Freud and Hollywood's deep-beat technique and mixed a piece of gruesome drama of the super-smart kind: death-wish in blue jeans, Götterdämmerung out of the gutter."
A stunning, unjustly forgotten masterpiece of world literature!
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