And in the second run, the fellow who covers for me is going to get up and he's going to play the part.
The day after Letts' talk with Newsweek, the show had two rehearsals planned. And, yeah, sometimes I will go to the director with an actor need that doesn't have anything to do with what the writer wants." "I'm just trying to hear what he's saying to me and trying to respond in the moment. I'm not watching another actor work and thinking, Oh, I need to give him this note. I mean, when I'm up there doing it, I'm really trying not to listen to the writing per se. Letts essentially calls it a draw: "It really is kind of a split-brain thing that has to happen. That Letts is both actor and playwright in his own play complicates matters a little, like: When there's a conflict between the playwright and the actor it makes one ask, "Who wins?" It moves from nice comedy to something a little darker and scarier." I think it's more about the way it makes it feel rather than what happens or any intellectual understanding of what happens. What often happens in plays of mine, not always and not just my plays, but we go from a sort of hyper-realism to a more expressionistic moment. In fact, the play was still getting some rewrites as Letts talked with Newsweek, especially refining the play's shifts in tone and style. But it was certainly inspired by our political moment at the time." "I don't think we ever say 'Democrat' or 'Republican' anywhere in the play. "The play is not about Trump." Letts told Newsweek.
That's not to say it is a political play in the agitprop sense. During the Hillary Clinton–Donald Trump presidential campaign, I was just thinking about the way we conduct our politics in this country and the moment we were politically." Letts told Newsweek that The Minutes grew out of his observations of the 2016 presidential election: "I wrote this play in the summer of 2016. Letts talked to Newsweek about the evolution of the play, which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in November 2017 and has changed some over the years, internally and externally. The Minutes, by the Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning Letts, is a comedy, that is if one defines comedy by the consistent laughter it evokes in audiences, but almost from the start there is an undercurrent of menace, which seems ready to surface at any moment. The play involves the day-to-day dealings of the Big Cherry city council, and the troubles that arise when a new member starts to ask some uncomfortable questions, like: Why is one member is gone and not to be spoken of, and why are the previous meeting's minutes nowhere to be found? In its four-year history, the play has managed to invite comparisons to Parks and Recreation and Rod Serling with a little bit of Alfred Hitchcock thrown in.
Todd Freeman, Letts, Danny McCarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Noah Reid and Jeff Still. The top-flight ensemble cast features Ian Barford, Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K. Shapiro, is set to open on Broadway at Studio 54, and having been closed during previews in 2020.
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID lockdown, Tracy Letts' play The Minutes, directed by Anna D.
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