AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
A Play in the Bon-Ton Studio
Performances March 20-22 & 26-29, 2015
Sunday shows are at 3pm; all other shows are at 7:30pm
Sponsored by CGA Law Firm
Darkly comic, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a critically acclaimed play that explores the painful issues all American families have to face, and then some. Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer-Prize and Tony-Award-winning play is one of the great new American dramas. It’s most recent success was on the screen this past year, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. At the Oklahoma farmhouse of the Westons, the patriarch, Beverly, goes missing. The family gathers together at the farmhouse hoping for good news, but, after five days, his body is found in a lake, a presumed suicide. The play takes us through the family’s pain, not just over Beverly’s death, but of living in a very dysfunctional family for many years. Violet, the drug-addicted, brain-addled matriarch, her three daughters, and their families try, unsuccessfully, to work out their problems from the time they arrive hoping to find Beverly, through his funeral, and on into the next day.