The Sandbox
Edward Albee
Brief One Act. 3 men, 2 women; bare stage, minimum of props
Westport, Conn. Whitebarn Theatre - Aug 27, 1960
New York, Theatre de Lys - Oct 25, 1960
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| A man in a spotlight, and in swimming trunks, is doing his daily dozen
silently. A couple appear to remark, drily, 'Well, here we are, this is
the beach.' The woman orders. a clarinettist out onto the stage and commands
him to play. The couple exit, return carrying the woman's eighty-six year
old mother, and dump her in a sandbox as we begin to cross the boundaries
between life and the stage. Grandma begins to weave her own rather dismayed
history between the cool, indifferent patter of the people and the equally
cool but somehow more sympathetic sounds from the clarinet. As grandma
covers herself with sand in order to die the cryptic athlete turns out
to bear a relationship to her after all, a nearly invisible string of intelligence
and sentiment moves to bind the collage together. |
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