Profile: Edward Albee
As a baby Edward Albee was adopted by wealthy New Yorkers whose rigid Republicanism later kindled leftist leanings and led him to walk out at 21. One of America's finest dramatists, he has written 28 plays but feels saddled with the 1962 triumph of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? His latest work maintains his Absurdist fascination with language and emotional conflict"There is chaos behind the civility, of course," re…