More Information About Three Tall Women

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<p>Three Tall Women, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by 2005 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award winner Edward Albee, is a gripping, witty and engaging story of one woman's life. A compelling and truthful tale that will stay with you long after the play has ended. A timeless piece, Three Tall Women has also been awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for its emotional and dynamic script.</p> <p>When Edward Albee began writing his play Three Tall Women after his mother died, he did so without the desire for revenge. Though he and his mother had managed to make each other very unhappy throughout the years, he simply felt a need to write about the emotions which surrounded her. </p> <p>He was already sixty-two when he started writing Three Tall Women, but he had been thinking about and personally living this play since his “first awareness of consciousness” as an infant. </p> <p>I knew my subject, my adoptive mother, from my infancy until her death over sixty years later. It is true I did not like her very much, could not abide her prejudices, her loathings, her paranoias, but I did admire her pride, her sense of self. I harbor no ill will toward her. </p> <p>Within the story, Albee reveals all of the facets of his mother: the wildness of her adolescence, what she went through during the years of her marriage and her husband's infidelity, and her strange un-motherly detachment from her son.</p> <p>I realize then that what I wanted to do was write as objective a play as I could about a fictional character who resembled in every way, in every event, someone I had known very, very well. </p>

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Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, Illinois (near Lake Michigan in the Northshore suburbs of Chicago), has been producing award-winning plays and musicals since its inception in 1983. Now nationally known and highly respected, Apple Tree has remained an artistic and cultural force in Chicago theater for 22 years. Apple Tree provides a professional five show mainstage season.