Ready Reference Treatise: A Delicate Balance

“A Delicate Balance” by Edward Albee is a remarkable play, highly acclaimed and admired.

It first premiered in the year 1966. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the year 1967. It was the first of the three Pulitzer Prizes which Edward Albee received for his literary creations.

Agnes and Tobias have been experiencing their uneasy existence in the upper middle class suburbanites. They have a permanent house-guest, Claire, the witty alcoholic sister of Agnes.

When their lifelong family friends Harry and Edna appear, lives of Agnes and Tobias are disrupted. Harry and Edna happen to be fellow empty nesters with free floating anxiety, and they want to stay with Agnes and Tobias to escape an unknown and unnamed terror.............