Finding Sense in The AbsurdAlbee at McGill is challenging
by Rachel Zuroff
McGill Players Theatre is currently presenting The American Dream and The Sandbox by Edward Albee, two one-act plays with recurring characters, both written within the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd. The plots are not at all straightforward; instead, they are oblique and filled with vague references rather than explicit declarations. Indeed the plays announce that they are "plays" and yet don't conform to the expectations of theatre. The most I can say of their plot is that they follow the story of a married couple, a grand-mother, a professional woman and a stranger.
