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'Osage County' a blast of truth and sin.
Byline: Chris Jones
Jul. 9--Given his lip-smacking relish for the agonizing unpeeling of familial pain, it's doubtful that Tracy Letts will be declared the official playwright of the state of Oklahoma any time soon. The Sooners already gave their hearts to that romantic 1943 musical set within their nascent borders, and nobody will want to see "August: Osage County" performed in the Tulsa schools.
But with this staggeringly ambitious -- and, for my money, staggeringly successful -- three-act domestic opus for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Letts has penned a major, not-to-be-missed new American work that eulogizes the perversely nurturing dysfunction of family life on the Plains as surely as it skewers the arid absurdities of its underpinning.
And with the help of director Anna D. Shapiro, Letts has…
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- News wire article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) July 1, 2006 700+ words
...It was like a puzzle," the former Osage County sheriff's deputy said of the bone...a court of law," said Briggs, an Osage County sheriff's deputy from 1970 to '72...is scheduled to be sentenced July 5, Osage County Undersheriff Lou Ann Brown said. Two...
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...found fatally shot the night before in Osage County, police said. Steven Duane Jackson...Clint Roberson, 24, of Skiatook, Osage County Undersheriff Lou Ann Brown said. The...and concluded that it had occurred in Osage County. Jackson allegedly shot Roberson with...
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A study of oil production costs in Osage County, OK, has found that operators there...Research. Researchers said they chose Osage County because it has more marginal wells per...cost of producing a barrel of oil in Osage County, after adding the cost of environmental...
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...Journal Record staff The Osage Nation and Osage County have hired an engineering and architecture...will be an inventory of all roads in Osage County and is expected to take three to four...support a positive relationship with Osage County, which ultimately provides better ...
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...Sep. 10--HOMINY -- Heavy rains in Osage County this morning have shut down a section...flooded between Hominy and Ralston, Osage County Emergency Management Director Mike Pattison...Service. Radar reports show that parts of Osage County received between 4 and 6 inches of rain...
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