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    <body><![CDATA[I don't feel at all tentative about including Tracy Letts's <em>August: Osage County</em> as one of my favorite plays of all motherfucking time -- <em>excusez mon français</em> -- alongside Shakespeare's <em>Macbeth</em> and <em>King Lear</em>, Brecht's <em>Mother Courage</em>,  Chekhov's <em>The Cherry Orchard</em>,  and Beckett's <em>Happy Days</em>.  Yep, m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41787562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stayed up late last night so I could finish reading Tracy Letts’s exquisite play, <em>August: Osage County</em>.  I was fortunate enough to see it performed in San Francisco last month.  I was especially fortunate to see Estelle Parsons reprise her Broadway role as family matriarch Violet Weston.  I just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70963444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh. My. God. This play deserves every hint of praise and recognition it's ever been given. A perfect blend of realistic household bullshit and and spectacularly weird fuckeduppery, the Weston family grabbed my heart and ripped it out through my tearducts. <br/><br/>How can you know when enough is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24067534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems like it's been far too long since we've had a living-room drama play that is actually touching and disturbing and hysterically funny as well.  I snorted with laughter and cringed with disgust while reading this.  It was easy to imagine it staged, a real plus for script reading!<br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38176330">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This award winning play is dark and intense.  It touches on a lot of family issues.  How do families communicate or grow apart when they live thousands of miles away?  What is the best way to care for ailing parents?  Ahh yes and what happens when people who are related, but don't necessarily get al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32100416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to choose a book for my book club.  I want the book to be something I think will be worth our time, but not something I've already read.  I want the others to like the book, but then there's something to be said for the great conversations that emerge when we don't like it.  This time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42053423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These characters were thrilling. Sad, funny, pathetic and somehow — heroic. <br/>Though there was something sort of &quot;Long Days Journey Into Night&quot; about it. Maybe it was just the depression. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in a single 3 hour period at my local Barnes and Noble today. Without giving anything away, this was the most powerful play I've read in quite a while. I especially enjoyed the innner play of gender roles in the familial setting. Who is to blame for the disfunctional family - Mother or F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71122822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  What an amazing piece!  This was one of the last of my six Pulitzer Prize-winning books I'm reading in preparation to study with my senior seminar this fall (the final one, Lynn Nottage's <u>Ruined</u> won't be published until November), and boy was it wonderful!  As with the others, there will be so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48563772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[August: Osage County is the story of a very dysfunctional family who gathers in the house of the matriarch and patriarch, after the patriarch, Beverly Weston goes missing. His wife, Violet Weston, is a crazy pill-popping drug addict who is the host of her family members while Beverly is gone. This a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34932817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this play on a plane last week recommended to me by a coworker whose tastes seem simpatico with mine in conversation but are lacking when I actually read the things.  I liked this play a lot, but it is lacking a man.  The story concerns a family whose patriarch disappears in the opening scene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29838067">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[he winner of the Pulitzer for drama for 2007. The play takes place in the tiny town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma in the heat of August (hence the title). Beverly Weston (who despite the first name, is a man) goes missing for several days, and is later found to be dead, likely from suicide. His wife Violet,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21903804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to be moved by this work but found myself at the end wistful for a more provocative experience.  The character development isn't lacking and the dialogue's well-crafted – I can imagine it being compelling on the stage – but the story felt familiar.  But, hey, who am I to say?  I'm getti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45484519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The dialog in this play about a dysfunctional Southern family was so good, I found myself trying to read it out loud to see how it sounded. Some of the arguments between a scorned wife and her philandering husband were perfectly scripted. This was like a Eugene O'Neill play for the 21st century - wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40019100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extravagantly melodramatic and full of withering, viciously funny dialogue, Letts' play reminded me at least in tone more of Albee and Pinter than O'Neill (who, let's face it, had the long and melodramatic down pat but lacked the &quot;funny&quot;).<br/><br/>A family with let's say some issues con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19052324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this staged and considering it was over three hours long and had the entire theater on the edge of their seats, it is a pretty powerful contemporary depiction of a dysfunctional family. I found Johnna, the housekeeper, to be the most intriguing, and even inspiring, character. Although it's a p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39557664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved loved loved this play. I take issue with most dialogue in plays because it's often too showy. It's big and overdone, and that's how plays are supposed to be I know, but reading plays straight rarely does it for me because they're so .... dramatic!<br/><br/>This play did not have that &quot;P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22617206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a play about family distress, depression, illnes, grudges and so much more. The characters are so dynamic and it's amazing that an author can pile so much sorrow and emotion into each character and keep track of it. It's an exceptional play that will make you sigh with relief when your throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62387415">more...</a>]]></body>
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