University of Oxford Student Season: Trinity Term 2026

By Edward Albee

On a quiet Sunday in Central Park, a chance encounter between two strangers turns into a gripping psychological duel.

Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story is a razor-sharp one-act drama about loneliness, class, and the desperate need to be heard. Darkly funny and increasingly unsettling, this explosive two-hander builds to a shocking climax.

As Jerry drives him beyond the safety of his bourgeois certainties, both Peter and the audience begin to sense an intellectual precipice. Will Jerry, reckless and angry, pull him over the ever-closer edge?

The Zoo Story was the remarkable debut of the Pulitzer award-winning dramatist, Edward Albee, writer of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.