August: Osage County (TCG Edition)

Letts, Tracy

ISBN 10: 1559363304 / ISBN 13: 9781559363303

Editore: Theatre Communications Group, 2008

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<div><b>Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play. Now a major motion picture!</b><br><br>"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." &#151;<i>TimeOut New York</i><br><br>"Tracy Letts' <i>August: Osage County</i> 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." <i>&#151;New York magazine</i><br><br>&#147;I don&#8217;t care if <i>August: Osage County</i> is three-and-a-half hours long. I wanted more.&#8221; &#150;Howard Shapiro, <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br><br>"This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays."<i>&#151;Time</i><br><br>One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, <i>August: Osage County</i> is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest&#151;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.<br><i>August: Osage County</i> has been produced in more than twenty countries worldwide and is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, and Ewan McGregor.<br><br><br><b>Tracy Letts</b> is the author of <i>Killer Joe</i>, <i>Bug</i>, and <i>Man from Nebraska</i>, 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 <i>August: Osage County</i><p> premiered.</p><br></div>

Informazioni sugli autori: <div><b>Tracy Letts</b> was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for <i>August: Osage County</i>, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2007 before playing Broadway, London's National Theatre, and a forty-week US tour. Other plays include Pulitzer Prize finalist <i>Man from Nebraska</i>; <i>Killer Joe</i>, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film; and <i>Bug</i>, which has played in New York, Chicago, and London and was adapted into a film. Letts is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and garnered a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of <i>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i><br></div>

Tracy Letts was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2007 before playing Broadway, London's National Theatre, and a forty-week US tour. Other plays include Pulitzer Prize finalist Man from Nebraska; Killer Joe, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film; and Bug, which has played in New York, Chicago, and London and was adapted into a film. Letts is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and garnered a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Titolo: August: Osage County (TCG Edition)
Casa editrice: Theatre Communications Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good