Letter: Edward Albee's nine-minute soliloquy for John Gielgud by Jonathan Croall

During rehearsals of the original production of Tiny Alice on Broadway in 1964, Edward Albee (obituary, 19 September) had daily rows with John Gielgud over a nine-minute soliloquy spoken by Gielgud's character, Brother Julian, just before his death. Gielgud was sure the speech was much too long " "it's like a Beckett or Graham Greene one-act play in its own right" " but Albee refused to budge. So Gielgud duly learned…

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