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 enlarge | Author: Tracy Letts
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
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Pages: 152
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ISBN: 1559363304
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.6
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Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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 Will not stand the test of time... September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Boring Joe July 31, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
"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 who loved it to remember the names of the characters. We don't easily forget Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," ditto Big Daddy in "Cat On Hot Tin Roof." The reason is the writing. In "August" there isn't a single character worth remembering. Twenty years hence, it is inconceivable to me that an actress or actor would say that this is the play they'd most like to be in. Actresses keep reviving "The Little Foxes" because it has a great role for a woman of a certain age. This is what keeps plays alive. These epic messes that keep making it to Broadway from the mid-west via Louisville and Chicago have lots of eccentric prairie dog types with goofy names and odd habits such as smoking pot at the supper table, but in the end this sort of late-Sam Shepard play goes nowhere. There is no dramatic action. There is nothing going on but a staged short story.
 It's understandable July 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
I would have loved to have seen this show with the original cast! July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally don't go to the theater. Can you imagine spending a hundred bucks sitting cramped in a Broadway theater? I feel like I have better things to do and I can't afford the luxury of going to see Broadway shows but with August: Osage County is a masterpiece. When I decided to finally see the show in New York, I was saddened to learn that Tony Winner Deanna Dunagan (the original Violet Weston from Chicago and New York) and Tony nominee Amy Morton (the original Barbara Weston from Chicago and New York) had left the show. In fact, this show can be backbreaking just from reading this play. The story about Beverly Weston, an aspiring writer and professor, who lives with his pill-addicted wife, Violet Weston, in a house in Oklahoma without air-conditioning. Beverly opens the play up about his life and his problems. We hear Violet in the background and don't see much of her in the prologue. The prologue is followed by three acts. Beverly has disappeared in the first act which brings about a family reunion of Violet's sister, Mattie Sue, played by Tony winner Rondi Reed in both New York and Chicago productions and her husband Charlie. Beverly and Violet's three daughters, Barbara-the oldest, married and mother of Jean arrive with her husband and teenage daughter in tow and with a secret, Ivy who has stayed nearby also has a secret about her love life (don't worry she's not gay but that might be better than the truth) Ivy never married nor will she have children; and Karen who brings her fiance Steve from Florida. Unfortunately with everybody and the recently hired Indian housekeeper Johnna who moves into the house all have secrets from each other. Still this show is really about the women characters who are realistic and multi-dimensional. We have rarely seen a show about women written by a man, Tracy Letts, directed by a woman, Anna Shapiro who all won Tonys. As this show goes to London with the original Violet, Deanna Dunagan, and the original Barbara, Amy Morton (both Steppenwolf players) in November, I encourage everybody in the London area who are theater buffs. I'm sure that somebody like Dame Judi Dench could take on Violet Weston but I would have given anything to have seen Deanna in this role. I began researching the history of Steppenwolf theater and the players like Rondi Reed who played Mattie Sue and won Tony for it. I feel like I can relate to the cast memebers. I am enthralled that this play was first about women who were complicated and well-developed. I didn't know Tracy Letts is a man. I just assumed he was a woman from his name but I am amazed at his insights into the female psyche in this play. It's kind of nice to see the men play second fiddle in the Weston home for a change.
great drama is still alive July 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a wonderful evening of theatre
one that will stand the test of time as so many greats of the past have done (i.e. the glass menagerie, who's afraid of virginia wolffe and so many others)
you will reread this over and over just to absorb the piece for it's many abilities it conveys.
hollywood should buying up the rights to this asap and if their is a god miss jane fonda will be playing the mother. what a role!
congratulation's mr. letts for this great work of art.
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