Tracy Letts

Para los Weston ha llegado el momento de enfrentarse al pasado y a las verdades que, silenciadas o ignoradas durante demasiado tiempo, envenenan el presente. Es un caluroso agosto en Oklahoma cuando Beverly, poeta alcohólico y sostén de la familia, desaparece dejando sola en la casa grande a su esposa Violet, enferma de cáncer. Es hora de que las tres hijas se reúnan con su madre y el resto de los familiares. Pero los Weston no son un nido familiar en el que refugiarse, son una bomba de relojería destinada a explotar.… (mere)

I would have liked this play better if I'd read if before "August: Osage County." The idea of religious faith and how it is passed down from parent to child, as well as the fallout when one's faith fails are themes that I enjoy exploring in fiction, and this particular work addresses these in the life of a middle-aged man from Nebraska.

"Do you ever look around? At the people around you, their habits and their things they do. The way they live, that we live. Do you ever think about the food we eat, and think about where the food comes from, where it goes? All the people" (20).… (mere)