Victorian premiere: At Home at the Zoo

At Home at the Zoo
Exit Theatre
6–16 June
Healseville Memorial Hall
booking: yarraranges.vic.gov.au

In 2007, Edward Albee wrote Homelife as a first act for his first play The Zoo Story (1958). He now insists that they are played together as one piece.

Exit Theatre are based in the Healesville in the Yarra Valley their first production for 2013 is the Victorian premiere of At Home at the Zoo.

Exit are keen to create an ongoing professional theatre presence in the Yarra Valley and under the artistic direction of Kristof Kaczmarek are planning seasons of Dostoyewsky, Sartre and Checkov. Kaczmarek founded Theatre Zart in Perth and had performed at Belvoir Street in Sydney and fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne.

DON'T MISS Edward Albee

MTC 2010 John Sumner Lecture: Edward Albee

It's not everyday that we get the chance to see and listen to Edward Albee. I'm excited.

He's in Melbourne on Sunday 17 October for the MTC John Sumner Lecture, where he'll  be asked about his half century of writing, his ongoing work encouraging and mentoring new writers and what might lie ahead for dramatists and theatre in the coming decades.

Edward Albee is a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and wrote wonders lie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women and The Zoo Story.  In 2002 he won a Tony Award for his play The Goat – or Who is Sylvia? and received the 2005 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award. Albee served as a Distinguished Professor of Playwriting at the University of Houston for 15 years.  

And tickets are FREE!

Call the MTC box office on (03) 8688 0800 

Albee will be in Sydney in October as a guest of Inscription to workshop six new commissioned Australian plays. The playwrights and works should be announced soon. Can't wait!

It's just been announced that Tee O'Neill won the AWG competition to the Albee workshop.