August: Osage County at the Curran Theatre

It is at this point you could feel the whole audience beginning to worry. They knew this play lasts three hours and twenty minutes. If this was what those three hours were going to be like, they wouldn't make it past first intermission.
But we all did. And past second intermission, too. Why? Because this is family drama at its most extreme. Melodrama, really, but still living in a thoroughly realist environment. The notion that all of this misfortune and shock and surprise could befall a single family on the Plains in three weeks is preposterous, but we buy it, because it's engrossing. We buy it because it's gutsy, daring and makes interesting choices.
For all the surprises, only the last one was really unpredictable. But the knowledge that these catastrophic revelations were coming only built up tension and suspense. The action is fast-paced, yet the play feels like an intrusion into the everyday lives of this supremely screwed-up family.
The set's a marvel, and it gives the actors a lot of room to play. And play they do. This is high caliber, high-stakes acting. It is visceral and switches from the comedic to the tragic on a dime, with the masterful strokes of Tracy Letts. The pendulum swing he has created is not easy to make realistic, and he does. It is also not easy to act, and the actors do. There were moments of disjointedness--reactions that came too quickly to be real, where transitions didn't exist and the audience was left questioning where this particular outburst was coming from. This is only the second stop on the tour, and the performance I saw was only the second night in the Curran. A new space, a new location, and not enough time to figure out each other's timing probably account for the lack of fluidity. Give them a couple weeks here, and I'm sure those issues will be hammered out.
August: Osage County plays at the Curran Theatre through Sept. 6th.
Photo of Shannon Cochran, Jeff Still & Estelle Parsons by Robert J. Saferstein.
Photo of Shannon Cochran, Jeff Still & Estelle Parsons by Robert J. Saferstein.
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