Edward Albee In Conversation With Jonathan Biggins Plays Sydney Theatre 7/5

Sydney Theatre Company and Inscription present Edward Albee in conversation with Jonathan Biggins, Sunday 5 July 2009 at 2.00pm, Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

Sydney Theatre Company and Inscription present Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee in conversation with writer, performer and director Jonathan Biggins at a special one-off event at Sydney Theatre on Sunday 5 July at 2.00pm.

Edward Albee has defined modern American theatre with four decades of provocative and controversial plays exploring contemporary American society. The New Yorker has called him "the greatest living playwright" and in 2005, Albee received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

Albee is perhaps best known for his classic 1962 drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which won both the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Other groundbreaking plays include A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women and The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?.

In this, the legendary artist's only public speaking forum during a rare visit to Australia, Albee will discuss how theatre has changed in the fifty years he has practiced it.

The event is part of the Sydney Theatre Company's Back Stage program, including play readings, ‘meet the artist' forums, pre-show briefings and back stage tours. Jonathan Biggins is well known to Sydney audiences as performer, director and co-writer of STC's annual Wharf Revue which has played to sell out houses for the last nine years. Also for the Company, he recently appeared in the acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties and in Ying Tong by Roy Smiles.

Inscription scripts, sharpens and presents Australian stories for theatre, film and TV, employing leading Australian and international "script doctors" to encourage scriptwriters to turn their stories from good to great. Inscription then helps package each project and provide production pathways for each team to help see the work through to stages and screens around the country and overseas. Each year Inscription holds a series of cutting edge script development masterclasses. This year, held at NIDA and AFTRS, Edward Albee works with them.

Tickets: Full $28 - $38
Box Office: 9250 1777 or sydneytheatre.com.au