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August: Osage County (TCG Edition) di Tracy…
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August: Osage County (TCG Edition) (originale 2007; edizione 2008)

di Tracy Letts (Autore)

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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 premie… (altro)

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Titolo:August: Osage County (TCG Edition)
Autori:Tracy Letts (Autore)
Info:Theatre Communications Group (2008), Edition: 2nd ptg, 152 pages
Collezioni:In lettura, Da leggere, Letti ma non posseduti
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Para los Weston ha llegado el momento de enfrentarse al pasado y a las verdades que, silenciadas o ignoradas durante demasiado tiempo, envenenan el presente. Es un caluroso agosto en Oklahoma cuando Beverly, poeta alcohólico y sostén de la familia, desaparece dejando sola en la casa grande a su esposa Violet, enferma de cáncer. Es hora de que las tres hijas se reúnan con su madre y el resto de los familiares. Pero los Weston no son un nido familiar en el que refugiarse, son una bomba de relojería destinada a explotar.
  Natt90 | Dec 9, 2022 |
I normally don't care too much for family dramas, but this one was deliciously entertaining. ( )
  irrelephant | Feb 21, 2021 |
An interesting play about family dysfunction. The movie fleshes out some of the scenes a bit more fluidly, but it's worth the read. ( )
  DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 |
“All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.” I'll probably recite this quote for the rest of my life, and it will make me smile every time. You tell 'em, Violet! ( )
  proteaprince | Dec 18, 2019 |
I was uncertain about this play when I first saw it. A second viewing (the film) left me somewhat more positive. It is in the reading that I have finally come to realize the weight of this play (and I am not referring to the 3.5 hour running time; I was aware of that from the first viewing). The story of a dysfunctional family in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, sounds genuine. It is an honest story, full of ordinary everyday unhappiness and conflict. The characters are like those in a Sam Shepherd play: deeply flawed, relentlessly narcissistic, unable to find their way out of problems of their own making, and blaming the world at large for everything that went wrong. For the most part, the characters veer between sympathetic and down-right unlikable, much like people in real life. While this family is different from other dysfunctional families, if you came from one, you will certainly recognize the emotional torture, even if the situations are different. It is complex, with subplot on top of subplot, and in the end, as true a statement about the meaninglessness of life as any absurdist writer ever achieved - and doing it all in a realist setting. Definitely worth the investment of time. ( )
  Devil_llama | Dec 31, 2017 |
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Drama. Fiction. Literature. HTML:

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 premie

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