{"id":19,"date":"2008-09-04T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-12-14T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:57:06","slug":"augustosage-county-a-play-not-to-miss-london-november-21-2008-%e2%80%93-january-21-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2008\/09\/04\/augustosage-county-a-play-not-to-miss-london-november-21-2008-%e2%80%93-january-21-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;August: Osage County&#8221;, a play not to miss: London November 21, 2008 \u2013 January 21, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some plays that leave you, quite literally, breathless with awe. \u00a0Osage County is one of them. At 3 hours and 20 minutes, this remarkable play is longer than average, and so it&#8217;s a tribute to the brilliance of the script, staging, direction and acting that it nevertheless rushes by. Watching Osage County in New York this summer, I can&#8217;t have been the only member of the audience who would have happily stayed put, there and then, to watch it all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Sex, drugs, and a dysfunctional family to rival any Tennessee Williams gave us, are all on offer in this\u00a0Pulitzer and Tony Award<strong><sup><span>\u00ae<\/span><\/sup><\/strong>winning American play. Written by Tracy Letts and\u00a0directed by Anna D. Shapiro, Osage County comes to London from Broadway for just 8 weeks. Its reputation precedes it so doubtless it will sell out fast.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be nearby, visit \u00a0<span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nationaltheatre.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0and b<span style=\"font-weight: normal\">ook your tickets fast.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Medical Humanities<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some plays that leave you, quite literally, breathless with awe. \u00a0Osage County is one of them. At 3 hours and 20 minutes, this remarkable play is longer than average, and so it&#8217;s a tribute to the brilliance of the script, staging, direction and acting that it nevertheless rushes by. Watching Osage County in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2008\/09\/04\/augustosage-county-a-play-not-to-miss-london-november-21-2008-%e2%80%93-january-21-2009\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}