’Seascape’

Abstract

Long before the first performance of Seascape Albee teased his questioners over what it would contain. ‘I’m moving from writing about people to writing about animals’, he declared, and later described the play as a ‘true to life story’. His audience could hardly have been prepared for the play they attended in January 1975. Many of the Albee ingredients are there. There is the married couple face to face with the problems of what is reality in their lives, and there is the intrusion of a second couple to create the quartet for which he writes so fluently.