Name: The Script Society Reads "The Minutes" by Tracy Letts
Start: 2026-08-19T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-19T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Bookstore1Sarasota

The Script Society Reads "The Minutes" by Tracy Letts

The Script Society is a limited-series collaborative group reading of dramatic works, led by Roxanne Baker. No experience required!
About this Event

The Script Society is our limited-series collaborative play reading group led by Roxanne Baker. Let's use the hazy, lazy days of summer to enjoy drama without the anxiety of memorizing lines or donning costumes! Choose a Reader ticket if you'd like an assigned role and the chance to participate in the reading, or a Listener ticket if you'd prefer to sit back, follow along, and enjoy the performance unfolding around you. No experience required; all you need is curiosity, enthusiasm, and a love of great storytelling.
Our final selection of the season is Tracy Letts's The Minutes—a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama and a darkly comic, razor-sharp satire about small-town politics, civic mythology, and the uncomfortable truths communities would rather keep buried. Set during a city council meeting in the fictional town of Big Cherry, the play gradually transforms from absurd workplace comedy into something stranger, more unsettling, and deeply American. Funny, tense, and surprisingly timely, The Minutes offers a brilliant ensemble reading experience full of eccentric characters, overlapping dialogue, and mounting unease.
We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $15.95, which is the cost of your copy of The Minutes to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor whose plays are celebrated for their biting humor, psychological complexity, and vivid portraits of American life. His works include August: Osage County, Bug, Killer Joe, Mary Page Marlowe, and The Minutes. As an actor, Letts has appeared on Broadway, film, and television, including roles in Lady Bird, The Big Short, and Homeland.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

Roxanne Baker hails from the mecca of film, Rochester, NY, where she introduced films at the George Eastman House. Since she arrived in Florida, she has moderated film talk-backs at Burns Court and taught Film Appreciation at Sarasota Art Museum through Osher Life Long Learning.