Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor. His plays include Linda Vista, Bug, Killer Joe and August: Osage County, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Tony and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play.
<p>'Exquisite... Beautiful and affecting, like flipping through a friend's photo album in no particular order, finding some faces familiar, others unexpected... A haunting, elliptical drama about the evolutions, reversals and resurrections in a woman's life... It illuminates, movingly, how youthful ideals wither, how little of life can truly be foreseen, how provisional all our plans are in a world where choice and chance are always in tension'</p>
New York Times
<p>'Tracy Letts is a poet of the ordinary, a playwright who writes about commonplace lives in uncommon ways.... You'll be enthralled to watch Mary's life unfold, for it is described in a manner so clear and true that you cannot doubt its significance. <em>Mary Page Marlowe</em> is the most purely beautiful play that Mr. Letts has given us'</p>
Wall Street Journal
<p>'This is Letts in contemplative mode, theatrically plumbing large questions like 'what is a person?' and, therefore, 'what is a life?'... Intensely thoughtful... the work has depth and an elegant potency... <em>Mary Page Marlowe</em> evokes a complex response that is both heady and emotional'</p>
Variety
<p>'Probing yet unsentimental in its clear-eyed compassion, this is a fragmented portrait of an ordinary life, distinguished by writing that plumbs emotional depths without ever surrendering its exquisite restraint'</p>
Hollywood Reporter
<p>'Searing... highly watchable... excellent dialogue'</p>
Guardian
<p>'Compelling and truthful... like watching fragments of a shattered vase, glued back together. The pieces don't quite fit and the cracks start to show... suggest[ing] that behaviour is not always tangential. Bad choices are made, and generational trauma is handed down. But also, things happen. Dreams die... remarkably poised; sad but never mawkish... full of humour'</p>
WhatsOnStage
<p>'Subtly devastating... a smart piece of writing'</p>
Time Out
<p>'Expertly crafted scenes that zip back and forth through time, leaving long gaps for the audience's imagination to step into... a fascinating perspective on the disconcertingly discontinuous nature of individual identity'</p>
Independent
<p>'Poignant, funny and at times devastating'</p>
The Upcoming
<p>'Kaleidoscopic... as crammed with joy and despair, intimacy and loneliness, abundance and waste as any of our lives... the nub of Letts' play [is] the impossibility of truly knowing another human being, the many selves we all inhabit and present to the world... in all her incarnations, Mary retains a certain power: a mystery that perhaps even she doesn't fully understand'</p>
The Stage
<p>'A well-crafted, prismatic play... a subtle and elegantly constructed piece of work... an elegant, bittersweet ensemble piece'</p>
The Standard
<p>'Quietly affecting and deeply poignant'</p>
London Theatre
<p>'A thoughtful and often moving exploration of a life lived... it asks us to piece together, from fragments, the mysteries of an ordinary, complicated life'</p>
Broadway World
'I'm still a person outside of this room, you know. I still live life even when you're not watching me.'
Mary Page Marlowe is an accountant from Ohio. She's led an ordinary life, filled with pain, pleasure and drudgery, just like anybody else. But inside her seemingly unremarkable story is a nuanced portrait of the majesty of a modest existence.
A vivid, time-jumping mosaic of one woman's world, Tracy Letts' play Mary Page Marlowe presents a life out of order, coloured by emotion and full of contradictions.
It was first performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, in 2016, and received its UK premiere at The Old Vic, London, in 2025, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Andrea Riseborough and Susan Sarandon.
A vivid, time-jumping mosaic of one woman's life, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Published alongside the Old Vic production in 2025.
'I'm still a person outside of this room, you know. I still live life even when you're not watching me.'
<p>'Exquisite... Beautiful and affecting, like flipping through a friend's photo album in no particular order, finding some faces familiar, others unexpected... A haunting, elliptical drama about the evolutions, reversals and resurrections in a woman's life... It illuminates, movingly, how youthful ideals wither, how little of life can truly be foreseen, how provisional all our plans are in a world where choice and chance are always in tension'</p>
New York Times
<p>'Tracy Letts is a poet of the ordinary, a playwright who writes about commonplace lives in uncommon ways.... You'll be enthralled to watch Mary's life unfold, for it is described in a manner so clear and true that you cannot doubt its significance. <em>Mary Page Marlowe</em> is the most purely beautiful play that Mr. Letts has given us'</p>
Wall Street Journal
<p>'This is Letts in contemplative mode, theatrically plumbing large questions like 'what is a person?' and, therefore, 'what is a life?'... Intensely thoughtful... the work has depth and an elegant potency... <em>Mary Page Marlowe</em> evokes a complex response that is both heady and emotional'</p>
Variety
<p>'Probing yet unsentimental in its clear-eyed compassion, this is a fragmented portrait of an ordinary life, distinguished by writing that plumbs emotional depths without ever surrendering its exquisite restraint'</p>
Hollywood Reporter
<p>'Searing... highly watchable... excellent dialogue'</p>
Guardian
<p>'Compelling and truthful... like watching fragments of a shattered vase, glued back together. The pieces don't quite fit and the cracks start to show... suggest[ing] that behaviour is not always tangential. Bad choices are made, and generational trauma is handed down. But also, things happen. Dreams die... remarkably poised; sad but never mawkish... full of humour'</p>
WhatsOnStage
<p>'Subtly devastating... a smart piece of writing'</p>
Time Out
<p>'Expertly crafted scenes that zip back and forth through time, leaving long gaps for the audience's imagination to step into... a fascinating perspective on the disconcertingly discontinuous nature of individual identity'</p>
Independent
<p>'Poignant, funny and at times devastating'</p>
The Upcoming
<p>'Kaleidoscopic... as crammed with joy and despair, intimacy and loneliness, abundance and waste as any of our lives... the nub of Letts' play [is] the impossibility of truly knowing another human being, the many selves we all inhabit and present to the world... in all her incarnations, Mary retains a certain power: a mystery that perhaps even she doesn't fully understand'</p>
The Stage
<p>'A well-crafted, prismatic play... a subtle and elegantly constructed piece of work... an elegant, bittersweet ensemble piece'</p>
The Standard
<p>'Quietly affecting and deeply poignant'</p>
London Theatre
<p>'A thoughtful and often moving exploration of a life lived... it asks us to piece together, from fragments, the mysteries of an ordinary, complicated life'</p>
Broadway World
'I'm still a person outside of this room, you know. I still live life even when you're not watching me.'
Mary Page Marlowe is an accountant from Ohio. She's led an ordinary life, filled with pain, pleasure and drudgery, just like anybody else. But inside her seemingly unremarkable story is a nuanced portrait of the majesty of a modest existence.
A vivid, time-jumping mosaic of one woman's world, Tracy Letts' play Mary Page Marlowe presents a life out of order, coloured by emotion and full of contradictions.
It was first performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, in 2016, and received its UK premiere at The Old Vic, London, in 2025, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Andrea Riseborough and Susan Sarandon.
A vivid, time-jumping mosaic of one woman's life, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Published alongside the Old Vic production in 2025.
'I'm still a person outside of this room, you know. I still live life even when you're not watching me.'
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor. His plays include Linda Vista, Bug, Killer Joe and August: Osage County, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Tony and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play.