At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and The Zoo Story: Two Plays

“I’ve been to the zoo.”
These opening words usher the audience into one of the most iconic plays in American theater history:The Zoo Story. More than fifty years later, master playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) wrote a prequel to this classic.Home Storycontains the events in Peter’s life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter’s wife, and see the …