Harring described her interpretation after seeing the film: "When I saw it the first time, I thought it was the story of Hollywood dreams, illusion and obsession.
Nigel and Aqui now live without dreams, illusions or hope.
"It's back to American subject matter," he said: "pipe dreams, illusions shattered, as in 'The Iceman Cometh,'Streetcarar,' 'Death of a Salesman' -- and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' " While readying the play for its opening, Mr. Albee has also been teaching playwriting at the University of Houston, as he has for more than a decade.
Everything else," he added, "is merely a dream or illusion".
"It's a temporary building, so it's a bit like a dream, an illusion, a ghost itself," he said.
He realizes that living with them had been a dream-like illusion for him and is jolted by the realization that the objects of his "dream" still remained.
Far from being a flashy distraction, the play's vaudevillian style is a visual embodiment of the dream-like illusion to which the Texan energy giant, and similar corporations, surrendered.
Otherwise, business as usual is still business, no one is perfect, and if the poor have nothing left but dreams, the illusion that a probinsyano tough guy can be president is one to believe in.
There are shifts in time and narrative perspective, flashbacks, dreams and illusions.
In the early 1990s he entered his black period, producing work whose titles -- "Day Dreaming," "Profundity," "Illusions" -- reflected a more somber turn.
