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The Stage (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Lyttelton, London: Like Edward Albee lost in Sam Shepard country, Tracy Letts' Chicago and Broadway hit is a portrait of the American family that is cringingly horrifying as often as it is hilariously comic, and is sometimes both at the same time. Letts' particular subject is the way that family members know precisely what to say to cause the greatest pain to each other, and how a lifetime...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... comparisons, a tad too obviously, with other canonical greats: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee. But what's really joyous is his emergent Chekhovian talent for weaving a broad tapestry, depicting a whole extended household. He combines that with pin-sharp detailing which rings painfully true. Amy Morton's Barbara is unforgettable, howling with grief, then distractedly...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... comparisons, a tad too obviously, with other canonical greats: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee. But what's really joyous is his emergent Chekhovian talent for weaving a broad tapestry, depicting a whole extended household. He combines that with pin-sharp detailing which rings painfully true. Amy Morton's Barbara is unforgettable, howling with grief, then distractedly...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... it often seems derivatively inspired by the dramas of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, combined with a dash of top-class American soap opera.The greatest works of art have a unique tone and quality of their own, which I don't detect here, while the play's attempt to make the wildly abnormal Letts family reflect a dramatic paradigm of America itself during the Bush...
