August: Osage County

Written by Tracy Letts.
Directed by Cate Clelland.

Recipient of the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of this Midwestern American family.

Members of the seriously dysfunctional Weston family gather at their family home near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, after the disappearance of the family patriarch Beverly Weston. So do we assume that they are there to comfort and support each other?

Despite any good intentions, over the weeks that follow, they scour and claw at each other, reviving former animosities, reliving past injuries, and unearthing old secrets. They continue to pick at each other so that things become highly tempestuous until eventually family relationships unravel and disintegrate. A tragi-comedy that explores the worst things about family life.

By arrangement with Music Theatre International Australasia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc

Please note: Thurs 5 Sept is Preview night. Fri 6 Sept is Opening Night.

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Reviews - August Osage County

Feeling like it summarises all the great American plays into one outsized epic,… this is a play that contains multitudes. This is an epic and powerful production. Karen Vickery as the matriarch is the mother from hell, and seizes the opportunity to ride a role that allows her to play everything from pathetic incoherence in […]

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Cast announcement - August: Osage County

Free-Rain Theatre Company is delighted to announce the full cast for our upcoming production of August: Osage County, to be staged at ACT Hub from 5 – 15 September 2024. Beverly Weston – David H. BennettViolet Weston – Karen VickeryBarbara Fordham – Louise BennetBill Fordham – Bruce HardieJean Fordham – Ella BuckleyIvy Weston  – Crystal […]

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When: 5 September – 15 September 2024
Where: ACT Hub at Causeway Hall

Cast

Beverly Weston – David H. Bennett
Violet Weston – Karen Vickery
Barbara Fordham – Louise Bennet
Bill Fordham – Bruce Hardie
Jean Fordham – Ella Buckley
Ivy Weston  – Crystal Mahon
Karen Weston – Karina Hudson
Mattie Fae Aiken – Tracy Noble
Charlie Aiken – Michael Sparks
Little Charles Aiken – Lachlan Ruffy
Johnna Monevata – Andrea Garcia
Steve Heidebrecht – Richard Manning
Sheriff Deon Gilbeau – Rob Drennan

Directed by Cate Clelland