Posts Tagged:Kerry Waters Lucas

For all the fire-breathing, balled-fist bellowing and insult-imbibing wrath conjured up in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” it all melts down to merely hollow trumpeting compared to Letts’ explosive masterpiece.

Keegan has produced a gripping and delicate portrayal of a family on the brink. Three and a half hours dripping in the weighty heat of conflict and resolution has never felt more refreshing.

…the Keegan Theatre has the director and The Acting Company to serve the play and demonstrate what a masterpiece AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY really is.

Packed with dysfunctional-family melodrama and satisfying zingers, “August: Osage County” chronicles the clashes and revelations that roil Violet’s household after her husband, Beverly, an alcoholic poet, mysteriously disappears.

The lesson: Call your mother and father more often.

Keegan Theatre’s August: Osage County is a Washington production well-worth seeing: a three-act Greek trilogy of sorts, the play explores through crisis and comedy the darkest areas of the soul. To be sure, you won’t leave the theatre feeling like all is right with the world, but you might leave wanting to do your part to salvage what’s left.