Findng the Sun

Edward Albee, most famously known for Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf, has a come back play in 83'.  This play was very fast, spuratic and full of life.  A character driven play, packed with information on each one in such a small amount of time.  The characters seem to be extreme, but it helps to develope the play.  All of them are troubled and it's great the way Albee has made them so many different ages.  It helps to see how different their perspectives are at differnt stages in life, and what you have to considered at those times.  I really like how this play doesn't have a lot of stage directions so I can use my own imagination.  Each characters love the sun.  The sun represents life, so when the sun hides behind the clouds at the end, Fergus is missing, Abigail tries to kill herself and Henden dies.  Then the sun comes back out.

Albee described his stylized drama as "pointillist in manner." This play counterbalances characters, in one example contrasting a young man's forthcoming freedom with an old man's awareness of his impending death.  The characters possess a false sense of security towards the relationships they find themselves in. These characters, in a fit of unforeseen brute honesty find that the safe, secure relationships they thought they had are pulled right from underneath their feet by unforeseen circumstances. It is at the end of this production that all the characters truly find out how utterly alone they actually are.