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LondonTheatreGoer (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Watching this I found myself having a desire to sneer at it. Certainly people behind me on the night and other reviews since have done that. It wasn't that the play was bad (it was good) or the acting wasn't top notch (it was), it's just that sceptical feeling that I get whenever something comes along laden with awards and over-hyped in previews. It was very much “I'll be the judge of how good it is...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Only Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph offered a note of caution. While it has earned its author Tracy Letts a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play, Spencer said that he was not entirely persuaded that it was "the first indisputably great America play of the 21st century", claiming that rather than representing "a dark vision of dysfunctional American society today" it...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
I saw four American plays on successive nights last week - Tracy Letts's August: Osage County; Neil LaBute's In A Dark Dark House; Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out!; and William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. But, while I would count the Steppenwolf production of the Letts play among the great experiences of the year and enjoyed the Saroyan, such a transatlantic deluge left me...
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Interval Drinks (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Apologies for the gap in blogging, but the last few days have been all things and stuff and whatnot. Last Friday however there was actually some theatre when 'Barry' and I went to see Tracy Letts' August: Osage County at the National . For the sake of thematic appropriateness, Barry had a pre-show whiskey and I, not having ready access to heavy-duty pharmaceuticals, contented myself...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Having won six Tony awards on Broadway and the Pulitzer Prize for its author, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County was asking for its comeuppance on arrival at the National Theatre.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Nearly 20 years have passed since Chicago's world-renowned troupe, Steppenwolf, last visited our National Theatre. Now they're back, bringing their enthralling tragicomic domestic drama, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, a Broadway hit which has won multiple Tony Awards and this year's Pulitzer Prize.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Nearly 20 years have passed since Chicago's world-renowned troupe, Steppenwolf, last visited our National Theatre. Now they're back, bringing their enthralling tragicomic domestic drama, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, a Broadway hit which has won multiple Tony Awards and this year's Pulitzer Prize.
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The Stage (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Lyttelton, London: Like Edward Albee lost in Sam Shepard country, Tracy Letts' Chicago and Broadway hit is a portrait of the American family that is cringingly horrifying as often as it is hilariously comic, and is sometimes both at the same time. Letts' particular subject is the way that family members know precisely what to say to cause the greatest pain to each other, and how...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Tracy Letts's play is being hailed as a monumental piece of American drama, which means you need some wise words pronto. Never fear: stealing the critics' smart ideas will save you a trip to the National
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
It may not be the first indisputably great American play of the 21st century, but Charles Spencer found the gripping family melodrama August: Osage County viciously funny Roni Reed (Mattie) and Deanna Dunagan (Violet) in Tracy Letts's harrowing August: Osage County [pic: Alasdair Muir]It was clear when I saw it on Broadway earlier this year that Tracy Letts's sprawling and...
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Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The arrival of Steppenwolf of Chicago on the South Bank is a truly momentous occasion. Last seen here in 1989 with a knockout production of The Grapes of Wrath led by founder member Gary Sinise, their incendiary presentation of Tracy Letts's big and ...
