August

BLUF: Play about a self-destructing family.

Not convinced? Here is the break down of characters (note: daughters not in age order)

Father – drunk
Mother – drug abuser
Daughter 1 – not good enough
Daughter 2 – control freak
Daughter 3 – depressed & naive
Granddaughter – drug user
Grandson – waste of life

The whole dysfunctional family concept is not entertaining to me. At all. I get enough crazy between my family and the hubby's, I don't need to read about too.

This play did not let up the arguments, cheap jabs at each other, or any of the other punches a family can throw. If that's not enough, you get incestual hints and pedophiles too.

Act I: Relationship background & Beverly ventures off
Act II: Bev is found and put to rest
Act III: General family drama

In the end, I understand that this play is a social commentary, but it's not my kind of read (or watch..).

Not since [b:Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 14940 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327962277s/14940.jpg 461400]have I come across such a dysfunctional family. This family mudslings and harbors deceit in pretty hefty doses. And true to life, once all of the toxic resentment surfaces, it leaves the readers with unsettling questions about how everything turns out. No one is able to, or attempts to take back what they've said. And no one leaves living happily ever after. For some, it may have been better to be kept in the dark.  Mental note: book flight to Hawaii this Thanksgiving!