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article from the Philadelphia Metro
By True Van Deusen
May 21, 2004
Edward Albee's 2002 Tony-Award winning play, "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia," will get its Philadelphia premiere performance as the closing show for The Philadelphia Theater Company's 2003-2004 season May 21- June 20.
It' will be at The Plays & Players Theater with Tony-Award winning (for "Love! Valour! Compassion!") actor John Glover and "Nickel and Dimed" star Elizabeth Norment in the lead roles.
Play is comedy/tragedy
Glover says this comedy/tragedy "is an amazing play about Martin, a world-famous, successful architect, who confesses to Ross, an old friend, for a pending TV show, that despite his love for his wife, he is hopelessly in love with a goat." Glover says Albee "is always pushing things to the limit" and that this is also "about a strong family in a true partner relationship for 22 years with a 17-year old son."
The combination of tragedy and comedy is reminiscent of Tennessee Williams, but Albee, Glover points out, "Carries it back to a classical, largely Greek drama." Albee wrote such landmark plays as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "A Delicate Balance," and the Pulitzer Prize winners, "Three Tall Women" and "Seascape."
Glover says, "Albee is writing broadly about someone believing in and finding something that needs to be experienced, something no one else has done and that he spends a lot of time figuring out what has happened to him and why he doesn't feel wrong because of it." He says Albee has created a drama that "is emotionally large" and "something of a puzzlement."
"The Goat," Glover feels, "with so much humor mixed with tragedy is going to be pretty much an adult show that those from almost any background will like."
He noted there are so many talented, passionate people in the theater today such as those in this production.
As someone with many years "bouncing back and forth" between stage, film and TV work, he said he feels very lucky working now with the play's director, Tim Vasen and his co-star, Norment. He added he is now under a two-year contract for the TV-show "Smallville".
Actress is from Broadway
Norment was in the Philadelphia Theater Company's prize production of "Nickel and Dimed" and has appeared on Broadway in "Plenty" and off-Broadway in such shows as "Could 9." Bradford William Anderson plays Billy, the son and is making his theater company debut with this show. Tom Teti plays Ross returning to the PTC where he worked for many years.
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