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Me, Myself and I (play)

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begins when OTTO tells his mother that he's leaving home to become Chinese and that his brother no longer exists. This upsets otto, who has been searching for some kind of confirmation that he is alive. Maureen, otto's girlfriend, becomes drawn into this. Word games and semantics, ideas about the various meanings and aspects of love, along with riffs on various cultural references, abound in this play.
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The play tells a complex story of Mother, who has an intimate relationship with Doctor, and who has problems telling her 28-year-old sons apart. Part of the problem may be that she has named her two sons “OTTO” and “otto”—an example of what the Doctor calls “symmetry, yes, but not logic”. The play
103:: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes. It also harks back to his early exercises in 220: 382: 270: 411: 180: 368: 169: 333: 213: 284: 263: 249: 115: 291: 361: 99: 54: 191: 319: 206: 119:), coal-black comedies from a time when brash young writers reveled in toppling theatrical traditions." 50: 135: 123: 66: 416: 256: 109: 85: 190:
Brantley, Ben. “Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe”New York Times. 28 January 2008
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Piepenburg, Erik. “But Can Their Moms Tell Them Apart?” New York Times. 15 September 2010
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Albee, Edward. ‘’Me, Myself and I’’. Dramatist Play Service 2011ISBN 0822224992
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Goldberg, Isa. “Edward Albee on his new play” FT Magazine. 4 September 2010
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is “in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like
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with set design by Thomas Lynch and costume design by
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Edward Albee
McCarter Theatre
Emily Mann
Jennifer von Mayrhauser
Tyne Daly
Michael Esper
Brian Murray
Charlotte Parry
Colin Donnell
Ben Brantley
The New York Times
The Play About the Baby
absurdism
The Sandbox
The American Dream
Playwrights Horizons
Elizabeth Ashley
Zachary Booth
Brian Murray






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Edward Albee
The Zoo Story

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