August: Osage County awaits at the ACT Hub. Image: Free Rain Theatre Company
Free Rain Theatre Company are delighted to present a Canberra-based production of “August: Osage County”, a 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.
The details
What: August: Osage County at the ACT Hub
When: Thursday, 5 September to Sunday, 15 September at various times
Where: ACT Hub, 14 Spinifex St, Kingston ACT 2604
Cost: Tickets available from $30 onwards, tickets available here.
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