Migliori Libri di Tracy Letts

Per i Weston è arrivato il momento di guardare in faccia il passato e le verità che, taciute o ignorate da troppo tempo, ne avvelenano il presente. È un caldo agosto in Oklahoma quando Beverly, poeta alcolizzato e capofamiglia, scompare lasciando sola nella grande casa la moglie Violet, malata di cancro. Per le tre figlie, Barbara, Karen e Ivy, è il momento di ritrovarsi con la madre e con il resto dei parenti. Ma se certe famiglie sono un baluardo di sicurezza, quella dei Weston è una bomba a orologeria: destinata a esplodere e a seminare distruzione. Un testo tagliente, nero, grottesco e ferocemente ironico, dotato di un ritmo trascinante: in bilico tra farsa e tragedia, Tracy Letts dipinge il ritratto di una famiglia a pezzi, nel cuore di un’America malata da tempo.

The Smith family hatch a plan to murder their estranged matriarch for her insurance money. They hire Joe Cooper, a police detective and part-time contract killer, to do the job. But once he enters their trailer home and comes face to face with their innocent daughter, the plan spirals out of control…A tense, gut-twisting thriller, Killer Joe asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival This edition of Tracy Letts’ gripping thriller is published alongside the West End production, starring Orlando Bloom in the title role.

A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter. Then one night, he awakens to find that he no longer believes in God. To the surprise of his very understanding (to a point) wife and his two grown daughters who think he has lost his mind, Ken decides to find himself and his faith by flying to London, where he was stationed while in the Air Force. He navigates through the new and somewhat dangerous realm of British counter-culture and ultimately finds his way back home. Tracy Letts’s moving, funny, and spiritually complex play dares to ask the big questions, and by doing so, reveals the hidden yearning and emotion that spur the eccentric behavior of seemingly ordinary people.