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...Chauffeured Studebakers fill Osage County. But there is a catch. Access to their money is controlled by white legal guardians....
...The play has been described as a reworking of August: Osage County, Buried Child and their ilk by leaning into archetypes and scheduled explosions (a pregnancy revelation, another awful family secret)....
...The last time its actors were in London, in 2008, they were flaying strips off each other in Tracy Letts’ red-raw family drama August: Osage County ....
...Letts’s plays, such as the 2008 family saga August: Osage County, sometimes strain for boisterous effect....
...She won Best Actress for her title role in 2000’s Erin Brockovich, and was nominated for Steel Magnolias in 1989, Pretty Woman in 1990, and August: Osage County in 2013....
A starry ensemble cast highlights the screen version of Tracy Letts’ play about an explosive family reunion
...It doesn’t work in Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, which won a mystifying (on this film’s evidence) Pulitzer Prize....
...After American Hustle and August: Osage County – tanked to the brim with marquee names – comes Out of the Furnace, starring C. Bale, C. Affleck, W. Harrelson, W. Dafoe, F....
...Greying, bespectacled and wrapped in a cardigan, Letts (known primarily as the author of August: Osage County) lets loose spectacularly....
...County, to his adult home, Chicago, command central for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which first fried up Donuts....
...August: Osage County, National Theatre (Lyttelton), London You’ve met the Waltons and the Simpsons – now meet the Westons....
...The car windows are open as I drive through Healing Springs, no more than a handful of ramshackle farm buildings next to Osage Creek, named after the Indians who once hunted here....
...But they have no chance against Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, a drama about a crumbling Oklahoma family that is Broadway’s most lauded US saga since Tony Kushner’s Angels in America....
...August: Osage County doesn’t induce an awareness that what might be occurring to the Westons offstage is as resonant and engaging as what’s happening to them on-stage....
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