Evan Koehler. Response to Edward Albee video

The first half of the video is largely a succession of questions about specific content in Albee's plays, so any information relevant to his writing process mainly comes from the video's later half. A lot of what Albee said is typical of most writers: he said that when actually writing the plays, he is not privy to any specific lines he is interested in and likely to incorporate; characters, like the son in the Three Tall Women, stem from his own life; the concept of a play is made during periods of differing time, et cetera. I am ignorant to any content of his plays, but, judging by their variety and themes, find Edward Albee particularly uninspired and more of an laborer than a creator. In the video, Edward says he was adopted into a fairly affluent family, which he later abandoned. His life after that was spent largely as a writer in New York City; never did Albee spend time in war, engage in journalism, spend significant time abroad (time not having to deal with play production), and I think it is because that lack of attendance to anything character-shaping or organic that I find him aloof and inhuman. A lot of his life seems to be spent in observation and self-effacing practices, which maybe why I particularly disliked what I saw of Three Tall Women. I do not know of Edward Albee for the same reasons I do not know of fringe German Folk bands: the two cater to unique audiences and don't evoke the ordinary man's spirit. Edward Albee's most trying struggle was being adopted into a rich family with a nice home. I should, however, read more of his work before writing something so scathing.