他界したエドワード・アルビーさん 写真:ロイター/アフロ

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 「バージニア・ウルフなんかこわくない」(1966)の原作者として知られる米劇作家エドワード・オールビーさんが、ニューヨーク州モントークの自宅で病気のため死去したと、ハリウッド・レポーター紙が報じた。88歳だった。

 1958年に「動物園物語」で劇作家デビューを飾ったオールビーさんは、「デリケート・バランス」(67)、「海の風景」(75)、「三人の背の高い女」(94)でピューリッツァー賞を3度受賞。代表作「バージニア・ウルフなんかこわくない」(62)も同賞にノミネートされたものの、保守的な選考委員にセリフの汚さを問題視され、受賞には至らなかった経緯がある。

 なお、同作は66年にマイク・ニコルズ監督によって映画化され、エリザベス・テイラーの主演女優賞のほか、アカデミー賞5部門に輝いている。

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Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
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Born (1928-03-12)March 12, 1928
Virginia, U.S.
Died September 16, 2016(2016-09-16) (aged 88)
Montauk, New York, U.S.
Occupation Dramatist
Nationality American
Period 1958–2016
Notable works Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Zoo Story
A Delicate Balance
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1967, 1975, and 1994)
Tony Award for Best Play (1963 and 2002)
National Medal of Arts (1996)
Special Tony Award (2005)
America Award in Literature (2015)
Partner
  • Jonathan Thomas (m. 1971; his death 2005)

Edward Franklin Albee III (/ˈɔːlb/ AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.

His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. His middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing, marriage, and sexual relationships. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Later in his life, Albee continued to experiment in works such as The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002).懐かしいベケット、イオネスコ、ジュネが並んでいますね。←青春の想い出!