Exact Resemblance is bringing Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story to Capitol Theatre. ctober. Written in 1958, the one-act play launched the career of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner with a fierce critique of social disconnection. More than six decades later, its portrait of inequality, eroded empathy, and the desperate need to be heard remains uncannily relevant in an age of vanishing public spaces and fractured human interaction.

Set on a park bench in New York’s Central Park, The Zoo Story follows an encounter between Peter, a comfortable publishing executive, and Jerry, a disheveled outsider desperate to make a human connection. What begins as a seemingly casual conversation spirals into a gripping confrontation. Comic, unsettling, and ultimately tragic, their interaction forces both men, and the audience, to confront the fragility of civility and the violence lurking beneath the surface of everyday life.