August: Osage County (movie tie-in)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559364661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Peyton Place, Oklahoma-style. Robert Beveridge Tracy Letts, August: Osage County (Theatre Communications Group, 2008)I've been trying to figure out what to say about August: Osage County for a few months now, and I never really come up with anything that works. So this is probably going to be a short, disjointed review about a very long, perfectly-constructed play. It involves a family, most of whom haven't seen each other in a very long time, and most of whom don't really like one another all that well, who get together in a house in the middle of nowhere after the family patriarch, a one-hit-wonder. Jocelyn R. Chabot said The Ultimate Disfunctional Family. Tracy Letts' portrayal of the ultimate disfunctional family leaps off the page. My family dynamics were eerily similar, so each line felt like an old, familiar punch in the gut. A must-read play for anyone who was raised by damaged adults.. American Families Get a Bad Rap Sometimes "August, Osage County" is a lousy, off-putting title for a Broadway play. This is another family saga in which the family members get their kicks out of shredding and tearing each other apart. Once again the great American family firmly rooted in some regional hell devours itself. We've seen this done before, but wasn't it done better by Albee, Tennessee Williams, O'Neill, and Arthur Miller? It's the great pastime for American playwrights who don't have royalty and the gods to kick around as Shakespeare and the Greek dramatists did. Is it the American fa
His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. Now a major motion picture!"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." TimeOut New York"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. 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. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still c
His account of a family whose secrets and lies come spilling forth under duress ranks with the best American drama of the past decade.” Elysa Gardner, USA TodayIn Tracy Letts’s ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional family drama comes roaring into the twenty-first century with eyes blazing, nostrils flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that you’re squirming in your seat even as you’re doubled over laughing. How many of those will we get the chance to discover in our lifetime?” Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment WeeklyPacked with unforgettable characters and dozens of quotable lines, August: Osage County is a tensely satisfying comedy, interspersed with remarkable evocations on