Zoo Story and Mountain Language January 15, 2011

These one-act plays bookend the careers of two of the 20th century's greatest English language playwrites, American Edward Albee and Briton Harold Pinter. ZOO STORY: a park bench, two strangers and a mysterious trip to the zoo. This classic tale of two men is class warfare at its most personal and primal. The Zoo Story displays ironic humor, unrelenting suspense, and savage intensity in a gripping Central Park encounter between a well-to-do business man and a disturbed vagrant. MOUNTAIN LANGAUGE: A brief but truly powerful study of totalitarian repression by one of the master playwrights of the English-speaking theatre. Successfully produced in both London and New York, the play evokes, in four short scenes, a shocking awareness of the terror, brutality and inhumanity which can occur when the rights of the individual have been usurped by an all-powerful and oppressive state.