The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
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The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? is a play by Edward Albee, written in 2000 and premiering on Broadway in 2002 to a very mixed reception, although it received that year's Tony Award for Best Play. It opened in London in 2004, where it has been and is a smashing success. A four-person play about an architect whose life crumbles when he falls in love with a goat, the focus is on where the limits of an ostensibly liberal society are and how incommunicable such inclinations are. It has been argued that the play is also a parable, less about sodomy (in the sense of zoophilia), as of course it seems to be, but rather about homosexuality, which is too acceptable in today's liberal society to dissect reactions against it as Albee wants to. The play also features many language games and grammatical arguments in the middle of catastrophes and existential dispute between the characters.
Text edition
- Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Notes toward a definition of tragedy), London: Methuen, 2004, ISBN 041377385X [1] (http://www.methuen.co.uk/goat.html).