Diana Carolina SánchezClaudia Liliana Garzón

Ingrid Hernández

THE ZOO STORY

A INTRODUCTION

• The Zoo Story is told about the different character between Peter’s and Jerry’s. Peter’s is from the middle class with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets and Jerry lives in boarding house and is very trouble they met in Central Park a Sunday afternoon in summer.

• The story began when Peter is seated on the bench stage right, and than Jerry enters and asked the question, he went to know the location of the Zoo, then he started to asked Peter and told the story of him.

EDWARD ALBEE

• Edward Franklin Albee (Washington DC, March 12, 1928). American playwright, introduced largely to the U.S.. UU. new trends in European drama of the second half of the twentieth century.

Albee is known for works such as: • The Zoo Story (1958)• The Sandbox (1959)• Who's Afraid of Virginia

Woolf? (1962)

OTHER WORK FROM THE AUTHOR• The Zoo Story (1958)• The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)• The Sandbox (1959)• Fam and Yam (1959)• The American Dream (1960)• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–1962)• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers)• Tiny Alice (1964)• Malcolm (1965) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)• A Delicate Balance (1966)• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966)• Everything in the Garden (1967)• Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968)• All Over (1971)• Seascape (1974)• Listening (1975)

LITERARY MOVEMENT

His works are considered deep, and present a critical examination of the modern condition. His early works show a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that had its heyday in the works of European writers such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco.

The zoo story explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world.

LITERARY TECHNIQUE• The anti-hero.• Satire: employs humor

to comment negatively• Allegory• Postmodernism.

CHARACTERSCHARACTER PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL REPRESENTING

Peter

an average sized and nearsighted man in his early

forties

Calm, Naive, Complacent,

Passive, Prpes and abit Bored.

Represented to be a

peaceful, and quiet

character

Jerry

A man his late thirties, not

poorly dressed. And while he isn´t longer

handsome. It´s evident that he once was. is a

man a little fat

An isolated and disheartened man

Represented to be a very complex and problematic

character

SETTING

Place: The physical setting in the

play is in the Central Park, with parkland, trees, and the benches

Time: • on a sunny afternoon. • The Zoo Story is set in

1959 and tells of two men, from quite different social and economic statuses.

The Social setting in the play is when Peter’s seat on the bench and than Jerry enters and started to conversation

THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD

THESIS

• The theater of the absurd encompasses a set of works by certain U.S. and European playwrights during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and, in general, which grew out of the work of those.

It is characterized by frames that seem meaningless, repetitive dialogue and lack of dramatic sequence that often create a dreamlike atmosphere.

• The theater of the absurd has strong existentialist traits and questions the society and the individual. Through humor and mystification hid a demanding attitude toward his art.

• The inconsistency, nonsense and illogic are also very representative features of these works.

• Many see the theater of the absurd as a construction without logical explanations and pointless. It highlights the incongruity between thought and deed, and the inconsistency between the ideologies and actions

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