AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Written by
Tracy Letts
1 AN ENDLESS SKY AT TWILIGHT 1
Foreboding. Heat lightning in the distance. Miles of
unforgiving, summer-scorched prairie.BEVERLY (OS)
..."Life is very long..."2 MILES OF STRAIGHT ROAD 2
Two lanes, not a car in sight. Cracked asphalt undulates over
gentle, browned hills, disappears into an infinite horizon.BEVERLY (OS)
TS Eliot. Not the first person to say
it, certainly not the first person to
think it.3 A LAKE IN THE GATHERING DUSK 3
Flat, still. An empty aluminum rowboat lolls listlessly,
tied haphazardly to an old wooden dock.BEVERLY (OS)