Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 8. Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 28)

Studies - Réka Cristian: Edward Albee's Castings

(and losing) a baby and two characters in desiring to have the baby. The Girl and the Boy seem to have a "baby-poo" which is fictionalized by the end with the mediation of the old(er) couple, Woman and Man. What seemed real is transformed into an imaginary product, "a baby, perhaps?"

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1 The "complex twine" that exists between and among the characters of Albee's cast is based on the belief that has been earlier stated by Leonardo da Vinci and quoted by Nicholas Mirzoeff. This belief holds the idea that one body alone "cannot signify perfectly without outside assistance" and needs to be "complemented and supplemented with artificial techniques of the body"

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2. This technique has been fully implemented in the dramaturgy of Edward Albee through his characters in order to make visible its major theme, the figure of the absent/present child. 8

1 Edward Albee The Play About the Baby (Dramatists Service, New York, [1997], ^ 2002), 27. N

2 Nicholas Mirzhoeff "Body Fragments Versus Universal Forms". In Bodyscape. Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (New York: Routledge, 1995), 21. 170