Belvoir’s season of Tracy Lett’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning tragicomedy August: Osage County has today been extended by a full week of performances, due to overwhelming demand.
Following sell-out performances, standing ovations, and rave reviews, the season will now conclude on Sunday 22 December.
Hailed by critics as “completely engrossing, horribly funny and train-wreck compelling” (Limelight), August: Osage County features a stellar cast of Australia’s finest theatre performers including Pamela Rabe (The Cherry Orchard), Helen Thomson (TV’s Colin from Accounts), Tasmin Carroll (Into the Woods), and Bert Labonté (STC’s Fences).
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.
Directed by Belvoir artistic director, Eamon Flack, the cast of 13 also includes Bee Cruse (NTofP’s Stolen), Amy Mathews (TV’s The Twelve), Johnny Nasser (STC’s A Fool in Love), Rohan Nichol (TV’s Home and Away), Will O’Mahony (Black Swan State Theatre’s Things I Know To Be True), Anna Samson (The Master & Margarita), Greg Stone (HIR), and Esther Williams (TV’s Heartbreak High).
A wild ride from start to finish, this unique staging of Lett’s high-stakes American classic is not to be missed.
New tickets for the season are on sale today via https://belvoir.com.au/productions/august-osage county/
November 9 – December 22
