Tracy Letts' The Minutes at Carpenter Square Theatre

Nominee: 2022 Tony Award for Best Play This scathing new comedy, about small-town politics and real-world power, from Tracy Letts, a native Oklahoman and the author of August: Osage County, exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers. 3 women, 8 men. Set at a city council meeting. “Explosive... Deftly captures the tension of patriotic grandiosity and provincial defensiveness found in city halls across the land.” – Chicago Tribune “Certain to be the single work of art that best represents, but will also survive, the Trump era.” – Variety “Astonishing... a pitch-black comedy about the current state of American politics and the ‘fake news’ elements in our national history... a blood ritual rooted in the more farcical manifestations of local government and parliamentary procedure, and along the way he has explained how some in this country have been brutally sacrificed, and why such sacrifices continue to be sanctioned.” – Chicago Sun-Times “The Minutes is also quite funny, silly even. (The council members re-enacting a famous Big Cherry battle is a hoot.) But the questions Letts poses – what are you willing to do, what are you willing to ignore, what are you willing to forget to preserve your ‘cocoon of comfort’? – are provocative. And perennial.” – Daily Herald