Ep 003 - Edward Albee's Tiny Alice
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2013
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
When first performed on Broadway in 1964, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice frustrated and discomfited audiences with its metaphysical critiques on faith and religion. It is no less opaque today (at least for Craig), and reading rather than seeing it performed certainly makes things more difficult.
The play's density aside, we do manage to discuss cantankerous authors, symbols within symbols, and staging the supernatural.
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| 0:00.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
| 0:05.0 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Overdo, and as a podcast about the books that you have been meaning to read, my name is Craig. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Andrew, and this is now our third episode, so in case you haven't heard me say this before, |
| 0:46.0 | let me tell you what's going on. |
| 0:48.0 | Drop it. |
| 0:49.0 | Drop some truth. |
| 0:50.0 | I will drop some truth bombs about us. |
| 0:55.0 | Each week, Andrew or myself will have chosen a book, not quite at random, but a book from our backlog, |
| 1:03.0 | our bookshelf that maybe we've been meaning to read or someone gave to us and said we should read or something like that. |
| 1:10.0 | And we're just going to go through it, and one of us will have read it and one of us won't, |
| 1:13.0 | and that's kind of the journey that we go on each week. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | A mystical, amazing journey, a tour through the world of imagination. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | My imagination, your imagination. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | The kind of journey that a good book can take you on. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, yeah, hopefully. |
| 1:32.0 | Basically, this is a podcast adaptation of Wishbone. |
| 1:36.0 | Is that basically what we're doing? |
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