A Delicate Balance

Reading Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance leaves an impression that there is less here than meets the eye. The amateur intellectual matriarch, the drunken sister (comic relief), the petulant, hopeless daughter, the puttering husband, and two strange friends don't up add up to much more than the sum of their parts. Existential dread and a sordid secret can't put enough meat on these bones.