August: Osage County
Surry Hills NSW 2010
AustraliaUpstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 6:30pm to 10pm Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30pm to 11pm Saturdays, 7:30pm to 8:30pm Sundays, 5pm to 8:30pm Saturday 9 November to Sunday 15 December Except Tuesday 12 November
Matinees on Saturday at 1pm
Belvoir brings to the stage one of the monumental plays of the 21st century, August: Osage County, a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning tragicomedy by American playwright Tracy Letts from 9 November to 15 December.
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 2007. Charismatic poet-patriarch Beverly Weston has gone – where, nobody knows. His wife Violet careers downhill into opiate addiction, and the three daughters dutifully return to their childhood home, spouses, children and unfinished business trailing behind. The family’s (almost) together – for the first time in years.
Of course, old wounds have to be dressed, but there are even deeper secrets sitting right there at the table. And what erupts is as uproarious as it is scarifying.