A review by catdad77a45
Mary Page Marlowe (TCG Edition) by Tracy Letts

4.0

4.5 As anyone who has seen/read Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning 'August: Osage County' knows, he is one of the few contemporary male playwrights capable of creating strong, multidimensional female characters (there were seven dynamite roles for actresses in that). In his latest offering, he presents the story of a fairly 'ordinary' woman in 11 non-chronological scenes, in which the titular character ages from 10 months to 69 years, to be played by six different actresses (7, if one includes - presumably - the doll for the earliest incarnation!) Each of the scenes is a gem, some of them quiet, but powerful, some full-throttle emotional tornadoes - but I am not quite sure they add up to more than the sum of their parts.