August Osage County

I'm not going to lie, I was little bit tipsy while reading this play. Which was actually appropriate.

It was as much about getting old as it was about a crazy family. I found all of the men having affairs with younger women and powerlessness of the women quite disturbing. It wasn't just that Violet had lost control of her family, but that she tried to compensate for her lack of control over her relationship by taking control of her children. As Barbara loses her husband to a younger woman, she tries to do the same.

In the end, I was also quite disappointed that Ivy didn't turn out to be a lesbian. Perhaps her life wouldn't have been ruined by growing old with some man that would just end up leaving her. Maybe that's the real message here.