A Play About Politics For (But Not About) The Age Of Trump
The Minutes is a new drama by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer and a Tony for August: Osage County. It's a dark comedy about a city council meeting — and a secret the town is hiding.
Playwright Tracy Letts says that by the time the 2016 election happened, he was almost finished writing The Minutes.
"It was a job of work to keep the blinders on and not make the play about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or — actually, to escape into the world of the play during that political moment was great, was solace," he says.
The artistic director of Chicago's Steppenwolf was solace for her too. Letts sent her the play just a few weeks after the election.
