The Zoo Story

By Edward Albee

Education Show for 2011

A park bench, two strangers and a mysterious trip to the zoo.

Class warfare at its most personal and instinctive, The Zoo Story is a gripping Central Park encounter between a well-to-do businessman and a disturbed vagrant.

Peter is a middle-class publishing executive who lives in ignorance of the world outside his settled life. Jerry is an isolated man who lives in a boarding house.

Desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being, Jerry intrudes on Peter's peaceful state by interrogating him and forcing him to listen to stories from his life. The results are explosive.

This gripping, groundbreaking play, first performed in Berlin in 1959, has become a classic of 20th century drama, a show-down of the most primal kind... Lyrical, abrasive, daring and at times very funny, this is a play that questions many of the values that shape our lives.

Director: Catherine Fitzgerald
Design Associate: Cassandra Backler
Cast includes: Renato Musolino, Brendan Rock