August Osage County, Tracy Letts
August Osage County, Tracy Letts
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August: Osage County

Author: Tracy Letts

Narrator: Deanna Dunagan, Rondi Reed, David Warshofsky, Francis Guinan, Kimberly Guerrero, Mariann Mayberry, Robert Maffia, Robert Pine, Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Scott Jaeck, Shannon Cochran, Tara Lynne Barr

Unabridged: 2 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2014

Categories: Fiction, Drama


Synopsis

Winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play, Tracy Letts' darkly comic epic offers a painfully funny look at a family struggling in the desolate heart of America.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, featuring members of the original Steppenwolf Theatre and Broadway productions: Tara Lynne Barr, Shannon Cochran, Deanna Dunagan (Tony Award®, Best Leading Actress), Kimberly Guerrero, Francis Guinan, Scott Jaeck, Ron Livingston, Robert Maffia, Mariann Mayberry, Rondi Reed (Tony Award®, Best Featured Actress), and David Warshofsky.

Directed by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded by L.A. Thetare Works before a live audience.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on August 25, 2018

"It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle." There is no doubt that “August: Osage County” is a great American play. Reading it one instantly gets the same feeling you get from the best O’Neil and Williams dramas. And like those plays, it is saturated with anger and bitterness and love......more

Goodreads review by Dave on July 21, 2020

Since I recently had a zoom family funeral and attended my wife’s (socially distanced) annual family reunion, I thought I would read this similar gathering of a family in Oklahoma, where Tracy Letts grew up. “Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. Th......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on September 23, 2008

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. How can you know when enough is enough? Or w......more