While he does not speak much in the play, we learn by the end that he is both a young aspiring actor in Southern California, and the "Angel of Death." The Sandbox is dedicated to Albee’s grandmother on his mother’s side, an influential figure in his life, and follows an abstracted depiction of the death of " Grandma," an older woman who, in her dotage, is cared for by " Mommy" and " Daddy." The "sandbox" of the title is a small playing area situated upstage, where a muscular young man does calisthenics.
For The Sandbox, he plucked characters from his full-length work and created a 14-minute absurd meditation on death and grief.
The Sandbox is linked to a longer play by Albee titled The American Dream, a play he had written earlier in his career. Its first production took place in New York the following year. Edward Albee wrote The Sandbox on commission from the Festival of Two Worlds at the Spoleto Festival in Italy in 1959.
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