By Tracy Letts
By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc New York.”
directed by Barry Park
June 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, July 4, 5, 6 at 7.30pm
June 23, 30 at 2pm
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play
Centres around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears.
The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined by her three daughters and their problematic lovers, who harbour their own deep secrets, her sister Mattie Fae and her family, well-trained in the Weston family art of cruelty, and finally, the observer of the chaos, the young Cheyenne housekeeper Johnna, who was hired by Beverly just before his disappearance.
Holed up in the large family estate in Osage County, Oklahoma, tensions heat up and boil over in the ruthless August heat.
Bursting with humour, vivacity, and intelligence, August: Osage County is both dense and funny, vicious and compassionate, enormous and unstoppable.
Warning: Coarse language, adult themes, sex & drug use references.
Performance Information
CAST OF CHARACTERS
| Beverly Weston |
Martyn Churcher |
| Violet Weston, Bev’s wife |
Chandra Wyatt |
| Mattie Fae Aiken, Violet’s sister |
Alida Chaney |
| Charlie Aiken, Mattie Fay’s husband |
David Cotgreave |
| Little Charles Aiken, their son |
Nic Doig |
| Barbara Fordham, Bev and Violet’s daughter |
Sally Barendse |
| Bill Fordham, her husband |
Dean McAskil |
| Jean Fordham, their daughter |
Tessa Bevilacqua |
| Ivy Weston, Bev and Violet’s daughter |
Jackie Oates |
| Karen Weston, Bev and Violet’s daughter |
Jennifer McGrath |
| Steve Heidebrecht, Karen’s fiancé |
Robert Jackson |
| Johnna Monevata, housekeeper |
Sarah Thillagaratnam |
| Sheriff Deon Gilbeau |
Cameron Leese |
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| PERFORMANCE VENUE:
Latvian Centre Theatre
60 Cleaver Terrace,
Belmont
WA |
TICKET PRICES:
$20 Adult;
$15 Concession (seniors/students);
$15 group bookings (group =10 or more) |
| BOOKINGS:
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OR
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Phone: 0415 777 173
1. Tickets booked by phone or email must be paid for at least seven (7) days prior to the performance.
2. Refunds will not be given if you fail to show.
3. Exchanges will only be considered up to five days prior to a performance and subject to availability only.
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