August: Osage County (TCG Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559363304 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. I wanted more.” Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer"This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays."TimeOne of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finestand absolute worst. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered.. Letts
"Peyton Place, Oklahoma-style." according to 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 poet who's been trying to finish another book for de. 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" according to John F. Rooney. "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 family that's so horribly dysfunctional or is it the pl
It is as harrowing a new work as Broadway has offered in years and the funniest in even longer.” Eric Gorde, New York Sun. A massive meditation on the cruel realities that often belie standard expectations of conjugal and family accordnot to mention on the decline of American integrity itself.” David Rooney, VarietyAugust will cement Letts’s place in theatrical history. 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, th