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Three Tall Women(photo by Sarah Ainslie)

Three Tall Women

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This Spring, Oxford Playhouse present it’s latest in-house production, Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women.

Written by one of the world’s greatest living playwrights, famous for works such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the more recent The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Three Tall Women is a unique play that lays bare the truths of our lives – how we live, how we love, what we settle for, and how we die.

Once again the Playhouse present an all-star cast including Marjorie Yates (Carol in Channel 4’s Shameless) Diane Fletcher (The History Boys, National Theatre) and Anna-Louise Plowman (Stargate SG1, the recent Doctor Who 'Dalek' episode and BBC’s Cambridge Spies) who will play the three women. Recent theatre graduate Sam Curtis will play The Boy. The production will be directed by Irina Brown who was last at the Playhouse with her production of The Vagina Monologues, which starred Rula Lenska.

Considered to be Albee’s most autobiographical piece to date and rarely performed due to the challenges of casting, Three Tall Women won Albee his third Pulitzer Prize and three Best Play awards. Within the play he portrays human frailty and ageing with insight, wit, humour and a complete absence of sentimentality.