Sacred Spaces Volume 1: The Minutes

By Tracy Letts

A dark comedy about the agony and ecstasy of small-town government.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County comes a dark comedy about the agony and ecstasy of small-town government. Good intentions collide with malicious inertia when an upstart young councilman returns from a brief leave of absence. Missing the minutes from the previous meeting, he senses the other council members—from shy civil servants to buffoonish politicians to senile elder statesmen—are hiding something awful about what transpired. In hilarious and unsettling fashion, The Minutes shows how fictional towns like Big Cherry and real towns like Davidson wrestle with uncomfortable task of recording their own histories.

The Minutes is presented alongside A Small but Humble Erasure as “Sacred Spaces: Plays about the History Beneath Us”

Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize; Tony-nominated for Best Play 2022

2 pounds Parks and Recreation with a dash of evil

Recommended ages 15+