Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.
Albee revival good
Albee revival good
Martyn Sanderson and Peter Bland revived Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story." the first Downstage production, immediately before the current production of "The Knack"
It is a curious play—hardly a drama, in which a series of attitudes are concurrently developed through various characters to establish a complex position. Rather, it is an excuse for an onslaught, a buttonholing by a twentieth century Marinere. fresh from voyaging the dull, dirty, listless apartments of New York. And the guilt he establishes may be our own. It is one of those plays (in a different convention from "The Sandbox" and "The American Dream") which Albee wrote leading up to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" And though brief, and not a drama in the sense •Virginia Woolf is. it uses the Albee fusion of the funny and the horrible to construct a nicely symbolic essay on our civilisation.
Peter Bland was especially Rood in a part whose predoinnt requirement was reaction. Martyn Sanderson played Jerry with such force as to make that mannerism of his, the tremble, look like new.—A.M.B.