August: Osage County

Written by Tracy Letts.
Directed by Cate Clelland.

Free-Rain Theatre presents Tracy Lett’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

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 intensions, 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 tragicomedy that explores the worst things about family life.

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

Details

When: 4 September – 14 September 2024
Where: ACT Hub at Causeway Hall

Cast

David H. Bennett
Karen Vickery
Louise Bennet
Bruce Hardie
Ella Buckley
Crystal Mahon
Karina Hudson
Tracy Noble
Michael Sparks
Lachlan Ruffy
Andrea Garcia
Richard Manning
Rob Drennan