"The American Dream" and "Zoo Story" by Edward Albee, directed by John Heckel, featuring Kimberly Mallett Alvarez, Bryce Campos, Larry Crist, Sally L’Herogan, Michael Murdock, and Heather PetersteinerProduced with Creekside Arts Productions.
In "The American Drean," which premiered in 1961, Albee explores not only the falsity of the American Dream but also the status quo of the American family. As he states in the preface to the play, "It is an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, emasculation, and vacuity; it is a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
"Zoo Story," Albee's first play, was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world.
