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Ross's letter. She realizes that Martin was telling the truth in Scene 1 and that she was right to worry about the business card and the odd scent. The card belongs to a member of a support group for bestiality. Martin claims that people like him seek animal company as a coping mechanism. For him, Sylvia is not just an animal; she has a soul and reciprocates his love. As Martin tries to justify himself, Stevie breaks various objects and overturns furniture. Finally, she exits, vowing revenge.
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Ross has written Stevie a letter regarding Martin's affair and Sylvia's identity. Stevie confronts Martin about this, with their son Billy also in the room. Billy is shocked and flees (throughout this scene, he enters and exits sporadically). Stevie recounts the normalcy of her life before she opened
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and recently being chosen to design a multi-billion-dollar city. However, Ross soon becomes frustrated with Martin’s inability to concentrate on the interview. Martin confides that the reason for his absent-mindedness is his affair with Sylvia, which began during his search for a country home. Amazed
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Overwhelmed with a sense of loss and love for his father, Billy embraces Martin and kisses him sexually on the mouth. Martin pushes Billy away just as Ross enters to witness the scene. Martin angrily defends both his son and himself. Ross says he received a call from Stevie saying Martin needed him.
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It is Martin's 50th birthday. In his suburban living room, he and his wife Stevie prepare to be interviewed on television by their friend Ross. Martin seems distracted and cannot remember anything. Stevie casually asks Martin about a woman's business card in his pocket and his odd scent. Martin
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Stevie then enters, dragging a dead goat. With directions from Ross to the farm where Sylvia was kept, she found and killed the goat, because she could not stand the idea that she and Sylvia loved Martin equally, and were loved as equally by him. The scene and play ends with a tableau as Ross
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Billy enters the ruined living room where Martin remains. Billy claims that Martin and Stevie are good people and are better than most of his classmates' parents. However, he begins crying once he realizes that Martin's bestiality has torn their once happy family apart beyond repair.
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A production by Bulgarian director Javor Gardev, endorsed by Albee, premiered at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre of Bulgaria in 2009. The production received the Award of the Society of the Independent Theatre Critics that year. It remains in the repertoire of the National Theatre.
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denies having an affair with a woman, but confesses to falling in love with a goat named Sylvia. Stevie laughs it off, thinking it is a joke. Stevie leaves when Ross arrives. Ross begins interviewing Martin, congratulating him for being the youngest man ever to win the
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The play was produced in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Theatre Company under the direction of Lorne Pardy, October 28 to November 14, 2004. The cast included Stewart Arnott as Martin, Dixie Seatle as Stevie, Peter Mooney as Billy, and Dennis Fitzgerald as Ross.
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in contemporary society. Martin's relationship with Sylvia thus defies convention. Unlike the other members in the support group, Martin does not understand why bestiality is wrong when he practices it devoid of previous trauma.
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The tale of a married, middle-aged architect, Martin, his wife Stevie, and their son Billy, whose lives crumble when Martin falls in love with a goat, the play focuses on the limits of an ostensibly
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that Martin could fall in love with anyone but Stevie, Ross asks repeatedly, "Who is Sylvia?" Martin reveals a photo of Sylvia and Ross screams that Sylvia is a goat.
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arguments in the middle of catastrophes and existential disputes between the characters. The name of the play refers to the song "Who Is Silvia?" from
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society. Through showing this family in crisis, Albee challenges audience members to question their own moral judgment of social taboos.
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Albee places parentheses around the play's subtitle: "Notes toward a definition of tragedy". The original Greek meaning of the word
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freezes, Stevie remains emotionless, Martin breaks down in tears, and Billy quietly tries to address his parents.
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on March 10, 2002, and closed on December 15, 2002, after 309 performances and 23 previews. Directed by
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don't stop." The allusion foreshadows Stevie's vow for vengeance, carried out to conclude the play.
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Ross and Martin spar over Ross's letter and how Martin's public image can be saved from disgrace.
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Stevie Gray: the wife of Martin who, until Sylvia, had been his one and only love
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at the Apollo Theatre on April 15, 2004, closing on August 7, 2004. Directed by
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Martin Gray: a 50-year-old award-winning architect who falls in love with a goat
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Billy Gray: Stevie and Martin's gay, emotionally sensitive, 17-year-old son
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with her increasingly frenzied actions. The play also alludes to the
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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes toward a Definition of Tragedy)
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The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy)
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opened at the Ros Packer Theatre, Sydney in March 2023, featuring
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Ross Tuttle: a family friend and host of a television program
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2002 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Ruehl)
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from April 2 to May 23, 2004, directed by Rob Ruggiero.
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Edward Albee renews the structure of Aristotelian tragedy
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The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Edward Albee
John Golden Theatre
New York City, New York
English
play
Edward Albee
Broadway
Tony Award for Best Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
liberal
language games
grammatical
Shakespeare's
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Pritzker Prize
tragedy
Aristotle
three unities
Greek tragedy
Greek theater
Dionysus
hegemony
taboo
maenad
Eumenides
Eumenides
problem play

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