Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is
his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.
The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as "unique � brilliant � a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest
order." The story of one of America's most dysfunctoinal families, it is a ferocious, uproarious attack on
the substitution of artificial values for real values--a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class
ethics to its complacent foundations. The Zoo Story is a harrowing depiction of a young man alienated from the
human race--a searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering
climax. Together, these plays show men and women at their most hilarious, heartbreaking, and above all, human--and
demonstrate why Edward Albee continues to be one of our greatest living dramatists.