Play: At Home At The Zoo, By Edward Albee

Edward Albee’s, At Home at the Zoo combines Albee’s classic, The Zoo Story, with its prequel, Homelife, to form a complete story of Peter (a book editor), and Ann (his wife), and Jerry (a desperate man Peter meets in the park).

In act one, Homelife, we get a sneak peek into the boring marital relationship between Peter and Ann, illuminating their brutal failed attempts to communicate about it, while living in their Upper East Side apartment. In the second act, Peter has an odd encounter with a stranger in the park.  The stranger’s behavior is unusual and aggressive and has a life altering impact on Peter. Albee’s dark humor, in this brilliantly recombined play, demonstrates the essential loneliness of humanity, as well as the depths of love and cruelty human beings are willing to inflict on each other in their daily encounters.