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Big show, big set - big success

If Eugene O'Neill wrote a drama about family life in 2007, what would it look like? Take a look at Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," a kind of contemporary mix of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "The Little Foxes" that is superb in its own right.

Few new plays come to town with a three-story house set (complete with kitchen, living room, bedroom and attic) and a three-and-a-half-hour...

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