Remembering Edward Albee

One of the greatest writers to ever put forth words and ideas, the brilliant Edward Albee died last week at the age of 88.

He always made us think and challenged our thoughts and emotions, with works such as “Three Tall Women,” “The Zoo Story” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff.”

Those incredible works and others often made us often feel emotionally exhausted, and always not only entertained, but also moved planes higher, in our thought  processes.

I could cite a deeper meaning to Albee’s use of “George and Martha” as the character’s names in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff,” perhaps an allegory about this country as the failed, even non existent offspring of the Washingtons, (George and Martha).

There is such a loss here, with knowledge that the likes of Edward Albee will not come this way again.

I can not expect such greatness and the “ship has sailed,” with the multitudes ignoring the downfall, by continually so called “texting” while walking  on their seemingly always present mobile phones.

When one as good as Michael McKean, so good I consider him “good enough” for his wife and one of my favorites, actress Annette O’Toole, uses the below “language”/shortcut/obscenity in lieu of a description of Mr. Albee’s work —then “abandon all hope yee who (have) entered here.”

Michael McKean wrote: “There was only one Edward Albee. #Irreplaceable.”

McKean, again someone I like so much, will do better next time. Will we/I?!!