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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Martin—a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty—leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. Type: Full Length Play. Acts: Two
Edward Albee The Goat Or Who Is Sylvia. Martin—a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty—leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son.
"The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" (a 2002 Tony Award winner for Best Play) places the audience in the jury box. The accused are Martin, his wife Stevie and their gay teen-aged son Billy.
The The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
“Symbolically, Albee’s choice of a goat opens a wide range of interpretations. Martin’s wife has the female form of a male name. So does Sylvia, which is the female form of the male name Sylvanus.
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? is a bold new play by legendary playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Three Tall Women, The Play About...
Broadway in 2002 - The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? When it's a play by Edward Albee, the master of American absurdist theater with his wry dialogue and unsympathetic depictions of modern life, it's...
[h1]Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?[/h1] [h2]by Edward Albee[/h2] [h3]October 11 - November 16, 2003[/h3] [h3]Synopsis[/h3] The three-time Pulitzer-Prize winner's most provocative, daring and controversial play.
The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? centers around Martin, a middle-aged architect at the peak of his fame, whose life is thrown into complete turmoil when he reveals to his best friend that he has fallen in love, spiritually and physically, with a goat named Sylvia.