ENCONTRAR O SOL

In Encontrar o Sol (1983) we stand before four pairs of men and women, three couples and a mother and sun.

They meet eachother in a popular beach that gradually, through some circumstancial chit chat, unveil their relationships’ fragilities, without loosing it’s frivolous tone. Henden, a 70 year-old man, married to Gertrude, 60, it’s Daniel’s father, now married to Cordelia, but entangled with Benjamin in the past, who’s now Abigail’s recent husband. Young Fergus and his mother follow with curiosity the ambiguity of these connections. With a cruel humour, Albee gifts his characters with irony and absolute self pitty, isolating them, with no exception, in an internal battle against Man’s greatest concerns: disaffection, old age, exclusion and loss.

Written in 1983, as a request from the University of Colorado, where it first was directed by the author,  Finding the Sun is a one-act play, where you see illustrated Edward Albee’s liking for the critical portrait of Man’s modern condition and his solitude’s unavoidability.