August: Osage County | |
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Written by | Tracy Letts |
Characters | Beverly Weston Violet Weston Barbara Fordham Ivy Weston Karen Weston Bill Fordham Jean Fordham Steve Heidebrecht Mattie Fae Aiken Charlie Aiken Little Charles Johnna Monevata Sheriff Deon Gilbeau |
Date premiered | June 28, 2007 |
Place premiered | Steppenwolf Theatre Company Chicago, Illinois |
Original language | English |
Subject | A family is forced to confront its past and present. |
Genre | Tragicomedy[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] |
Setting | A large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma |
August: Osage[a] County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on June 28, 2007, and closed on August 26, 2007.[9] It had its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theater on December 4, 2007, and the production transferred to the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009, after 648 performances and 18 previews.[10]
The show made its UK Debut at London's National Theatre in November 2008. A US national tour began on July 24, 2009, with its first performance at Denver's Buell Theatre.
In 2013, it was adapted and brought to stage by Taiwanese Greenray Theatre.[11] The story and characters remained unchanged, except the plot took place in a Taiwanese family.
Fiercely funny and bitingly sad, this turbo-charged tragicomedy.
Tracy Letts, he of the trailer trash epics Killer Joe and Bug, does that and more in his scythingly funny tragicomedy August: Osage County, and when it comes to choreographing family dysfunction, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company does not put a foot wrong.
Tracy Letts' play "August: Osage County," a blistering familial tragicomedy that has earned comparisons to the work of Edward Albee and Eugene O'Neill, on Monday was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Tracy Letts' epic tragicomedy about family, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, makes its eagerly anticipated New Zealand premier at the Maidment Theatre on September 2.
This searing, explosive (and Tony-winning) tragicomedy by Tracy Letts is making its Seattle debut on a national tour stop at the Paramount Theatre.
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