A review by jay_the_hippie
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

4.0

Now I'm all worried about the author's childhood. Did he experience any of the things in this play? Well, I guess it's not really childhood, since the "children" are in their thirties and forties. Anyway, the family relationships are... Let's say "not entirely healthy" as a kind of euphamism. Or hyperbolic understatement. I'd probably have to use curse words to get the full extent of the disfunctionality, actually. Which is rather what has me worried; I am considering (planning?) auditioning to perform in this play next May (the performances are in May; I don't know the audition schedule yet). Should I be considering acting in a play that I'm not sure I'd want some of my people to come see? While I think the answer is "yes," because the characters are all so well drawn -- I mean, there's not a single minor character in this whole thing -- and the story is very intense, but it does make me take a moment to consider.

Family. What can you do about it?



Reread in 2018, preparing to audition for this show next summer.