ACT 1: HOMELIFE (1 F / 1 M) ACT 2: THE ZOO STORY (2 M)
Edward Albee has written a new one-act play titled HOMELIFE, to be performed with THE ZOO STORY from 1959 under the common title PETER AND JERRY. Peter is looking for a quiet place to read his book, but he is constantly disturbed by his wife Ann, who wants to discuss trivial things – spinach, cats, children, marriage, sex and morals. In THE ZOO STORY he has finally found his beloved bench in Central Park. However, his reading is bothered by the strange man Jerry, who wants to siege the bench.
"Brilliant! The work has bark and bite." - Variety / "A darkly comic and thrilling glimpse of characters smashed up against the bars of social convention and their secret, suppressed identities. The more acidly articulate Albee's characters are, the more detached from reality and each other they become. Welcome to his world." - Time Out New York / "Tense, truthful, and hypnotic" - New York Daily News / "Albee has dared to write a prequel to the play that made his reputation … Improbable as it sounds, the new stuff doesn't just hold up next to the famous bench encounter - it's better … In a sure sign of a writer in full command of his powers, the dialogue gets more matter-of-fact as the subjects grow more perverse—like watching a Balthus canvas come to life." - New York / "Emotionally erratic and ultimately chilling" - CurtainUp / "Tense, shocking, sexually charged, and loaded with the singsong, abstract dialogue that was so powerful in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? One of the season's must-see shows." - Show Business / "A thoroughly satisfying package of jagged-edged provocation" - Newsday
