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Superior Donuts (2010)

by Tracy Letts(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1559363614 (ISBN13: 9781559363617)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Theatre Communications Group

review 1: I saw a production of this play in Boston last year and was incredibly moved. I really wanted to read the script, to see if it read as well as it played (which unfortunately, is not always the case), and I have to say, it was just as moving to read this piece as it was to see-so much so, that I was sobbing on the train on the way to work this morning when I finished it. The thing I really adore about Mr. Letts' work is that it's real-whether reading it or seeing it, you know these people-they aren't characters, they are fully realized human beings, flaws and joys and all.
review 2: Since O'Neill, the great American play has been in a constant state of flux, reinventing itself, but always finding the remnants of its melodramatic, poetical, and sometimes suprar... moreealistic forbears. Superior Donuts gestates on the principal questions of the American play: the working class, the American Dream, the dissolution of marriage, failed father figures, and others. It's both enhanced and diminished by the American drama's constricting vision. There isn't as much grandstanding, or vast revelations of character. The audience may not be seized by the recognition of pity and fear. But it does manage to creep up, slowly and unpretentiously, to a moment's recognition, of sadness or sympathy. Like a ghost in the shell, which is really all I can call the American play, it's a hollowed out form of its former self. That's not a bad thing, though, as it is all a matter of taste. We keep asking ourselves, when we watch or read a new American play, where is the Imago that was supposed to blossom out of its cocoon? But in this new era, the medium elects to show you the remnants of the chrysalis; the butterfly is nowhere to be found, but the shell is evidence that it must exist, right? less

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