The Zoo Story Resources

Websites

The Edward Albee Society

All things Albee: bibliography, biography, news, and more. The society meets alternate Tuesdays on a bench in Central Park. (Just kidding.)

Movie or TV Productions

Absurdity on TV, 1964

The Zoo Story had a television production some five years after it was staged. There's not much more information available. It does not seem to have set Nielsen records.

Articles and Interviews

The Edward Albee Story

Who's Edward Albee? Did he ever go to the zoo? This biographical article will tell you.

The Zoo Story, Plus

Forty years after finishing The Zoo Story, Albee decided to write a preface. That's a long time to finish a one- (now two-) act play.

Jerry in a Cage

A paper about themes of entrapment in The Zoo Story.

"People Don't Know Anything About Themselves. They Shouldn't Write About Themselves."

A lengthy interview with Albee.

Video

I've Been to the Zoo

Bucknell University's 2011 production of The Zoo Story.

"I Saw My First…Albee Play in a Language I Don't Understand"

An interview with Edward Albee about his career, his interactions with Samuel Beckett, The Zoo Story prequel, and other matters.

"Yes is Better Than No"

A brief interview and profile of Edward Albee, focusing on Albee's famous play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Audio

NPR interviews Edward Albee about his controversial 2011 comments that he did not want to be pigeonholed as a gay writer.

An NPR interview on Albee's 80th anniversary in 2008.

Images

"Ever See a Play Called Zoo Story"

An ominous cartoon referencing the Albee play.

There They are on the Bench

A scene from a 2009 Tucson production of The Zoo Story.

Young Edward Albee

Albee in 1961 at the age of 33 by the famous photographer Carl Van Vechten.