A Delicate Balance
Opening Night: August 24, 2010
Closing: September 4, 2010
Theater: Berkshire Theatre Festival - Mainstage
Agnes and Tobias, a 50-something couple, want nothing more than to be left alone. However, they are saddled with Agnes’s alcoholic sister. When their daughter returns home as a result of her fourth divorce and their best friends seek asylum from some unnamed "fear", tensions fray and every relationship in the house threatens to fall apart. An examination of the intricate web we all create among our friends and family and how easily it can all fall apart, A Delicate Balance sings with Albee’s trademark lyricism and insight. This Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is poignant, incisive, and funny.
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August 25, 2010
Watching combative friends and relatives lob epigrams at one another has long been a favorite spectator sport at summer theaters. When you’re feeling overheated and limp-brained, there’s undeniable satisfaction in hearing awkwardness and animosity translated into graceful, gliding prose. But does anyone ever pause to think how trying it must be always to speak that way, or that such articulateness might be — gulp! — a hard-fought existential commitment?
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