“August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts (post 4): Pulitzer Prize play gets mixed reviews because its characters do not have multiple personality

This play (1) won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is very dramatic, but it got a negative review in The Washington Post (2) and a mixed review in The New York Times (3), because it lacks psychological depth.

The reviews don’t say what kind of psychology is missing from this play’s traumatized characters. It is multiple personality.

I did not find any symptoms of multiple personality in this play, because, contrary to what some people might think, I don’t find it when it isn’t there.

1. Tracy Letts. August: Osage County. New York, Dramatists Play Service, 2009.

2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202670.html

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/theater/reviews/13augu.html