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If a play can be entered as a favorite book, then I would love to nominate Tracy Lett's August:Osage County into the Puddly Award pool. This hilarious but poignant play about a dysfunctional family on the eve following the loss of a family member is full of knee-slapping, heart-rendering moments that make each page a delight to read. It shocks, amuses and astounds the reader, and is a journey through very different lives bound by the familial common thread. Hopefully most readers will not literally identify with any of the characters, but certainly a less extreme version of each can be found in our own families, neighbors, friends, coworkers, or even ourselves. Abundantly flawed but rich in humanity, these folks tell it like it is, and do not hold back on anything, which is to the reader's divine benefit.
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A dilapidated, one hundred year-old farmhouse on the plains outside Tulsa has been the home of the Weston family for generations, and Beverly Weston, the family patriarch, has long found refuge in alcohol. His termagant wife Violet takes pills, whatever pills she can lay hands on, and the two have little in common and have not really communicated for years. Bev, who once published a collection of poetry, now spends time quoting T. S. Eliot, and Eliot's line that "Life is very long..." serves as a motto for Bev in his life. Bev's Prologue sets the tone for the play, and when Act One begins, Bev has disappeared. The family has gathered to support each other while they await news on his whereabouts. A dysfunctional family which represents just about every problem a family can have, the Westons who have gathered are the three daughters of Bev and Violet, along with Violet's sister Mattie Fay, her husband, and adult son. Barbara, at forty-six the eldest of the Westons' children, has arrived with her husband and precocious fourteen-year-old daughter. Ivy Weston, age forty-four, is unmarried, constantly resisting her mother's meddlesome probing and her cruel remarks about catching a man. Karen Weston, the youngest, at forty, has brought her fifty-year-old fiancé with her. In the course of the three hours or more of this play, the family, overwhelmed by the selfish mean-spiritedness Violet, reveals and/or deals with their self-destructive behavior on all levels--from addictions, unhappy marriages, and infidelity, to sadism, suicide, pedophilia, and even incest.
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ISBN:
9781559363303
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
02/01/2008
Publisher:
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
Pages:
152
Height:
.38IN
Width:
5.69IN
Thickness:
.5 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2008
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Author:
Tracy Letts
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General Drama
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Parent and adult child
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Drama-American Anthology
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