At Home at the Zoo Page 7

Very good, Peter … very good. Now … hurry away.

  (PETER hesitates for a moment, then flees, stage left.)

  Hurry away …

  (His eyes are closed now.)

  PETER

  OH MY GOD!

  JERRY

  Hurry away, your parakeets are making the dinner … the cats … are setting the table …

  PETER (Offstage. A pitiful howl.)

  OH MY GOD!

  JERRY

  (His eyes still closed, he shakes his head and speaks; a combination of scornful mimicry and supplication.)

  Oh … my … God.

  (He is dead.)

  END OF PLAY

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  “A major playwright who helped to change

  the shape of contemporary drama here and abroad.”

  —VINCENT CANBY, THE NEW YORK TIMES

  “Albee throws the abyss in our faces with exhilarating,

  articulate, daring and dark, grown-up dazzle.”

  —CHICAGO TRIBUNE

  “One of the few genuinely great living American dramatists.”

  —BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES