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August: Osage County
by: Tracy Letts

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.6
EAN: 9781559363303
ISBN: 1559363304
Label: Theatre Communications Group
Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Sales Rank: 2114
Studio: Theatre Communications Group

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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

'A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.'-Time Out New York

'Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original.'-New York magazine

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed. After its sold-out Chicago premiere, the play has electrified audiences in New York since its opening in November 2007.

Tracy Letts is the author of Killer Joe, Bug, and Man from Nebraska, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered.

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- You Will Care About None of These Characters in This Play
What a disappointing play this was. For all the passion and screaming, other than the father who dies in the first scene, you will not care at all about any of the characters in this play.

Consider what holds you, in the great plays about angst, from O'Neill's to Albee, Clifford Odets, Hellman, Osborne and Ibsen -- even Strindberg and Beckett -- you somehow care about at least one person in the play, or learn something about how they ended up as they did, or learn something from how they attempt to cope with their situation. You get none of that in this pointless screamfest. None of the young victims of the twisted adults are at all edifying. None of the adults have even the slightest enriching qualities of life or language to lift them up as characters or people. It is all just banality. Most simpering of all are the disguised characterizations of what must be the author-as-victim. Remember how ... Read More

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- Will not stand the test of time...
August: Osage County is too long with periods of really good writing buttressed by really vapid prose filled with *!@)*$ words. Instead of focusing core of the story, the author brings in every plot turn you would expect in a parody of a good play. You knew the moment the boyfriend of the middle daughter walked into the room he would seduce the teenage niece and that another daughter would fall in love with her known cousin and unknown half-brother.

The play would benefit by re-writing for the distant future, remove the excess, trim to the core and concentrate on the relationship of the mother, aunt and oldest daughter, the best part of this play. Deborah from Tulsa and now New Jersey.

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- Boring Joe
"Killer Joe": now there was a play. Lights go down in the theatre. Suddenly a single light shoots across the stage. We see the rear end of a gal bending over as she searches into the refrigerator, its light illuminating her nude body. Bingo. And it goes straight up from there. Wonderful show. Audience loved it. "Osage" opens with a middle aged bugger talking inaudibly to an Indian woman about coming in as a maid. It's a ten minute scene, more or else. Lights out and in the next we learn that he's gone off and may be dead. People gather, drunks walk around on all fours. It's something like an episode of the Coneheads without the cones. I heard a few laughs in the auditorium, but by then everyone had heard that the play was great, so I guess they told their friends it was worth seeing. I didn't. This is another one of these epic plays celebrated for about 14 1/2 minutes and sure to be forgotten. In fact, I defy those ... Read More

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- It's understandable
I now understand why this play won so many awards. This was one of the best plays I've read in many years. THe characters were well-constructed and written. I hope they have an Equity touring company in the future so I can see the production live.

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