August: Osage County

August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts

August: Osage County
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Author: Tracy Letts
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN: 1559363304
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Book Reviews of August: Osage County

Book Review: Eh
Summary: 3 Stars

The Broadway performance features scintillating acting, a gorgeous set, and plenty of witty one-liners... but a hollow soul.

Of course, the play is meant to be existential, but the trouble is that one leaves the theater wondering, "What is the point of this play?"(Then again, if our existence is ultimately meaningless and unable to have meaning carved into it, perhaps this drama has been surreptitiously profound in its utter lack of direction.)

At the end of the day, the drama is not engaging; there is no "drama" to this drama, no conflict to be wrestled with, just an endless series of sometimes interesting, sometimes funny, conflicts that add up to nothing. There are worse ways to spend an evening, or $120. But classic drama, this is not.

Summary of August: Osage County

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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