August: Osage County

For the film based on the play, see August: Osage County (film).

August: Osage County
Original Broadway windowcard
Written byTracy Letts
CharactersBeverly Weston
Violet Weston
Barbara Fordham
Ivy Weston
Karen Weston
Bill Fordham
Jean Fordham
Steve Heidebrecht
Mattie Fae Aiken
Charlie Aiken
Little Charles
Johnna Monevata
Sheriff Deon Gilbeau
Date premieredJune 28, 2007
Place premieredSteppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, Illinois
Original languageEnglish
SubjectA family is forced to confront its past and present.
GenreTragicomedy[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
SettingA large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma

August: Osage[a] County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on June 28, 2007, and closed on August 26, 2007.[9] It had its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theater on December 4, 2007, and the production transferred to the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009, after 648 performances and 18 previews.[10]

The show made its UK Debut at London's National Theatre in November 2008. A US national tour began on July 24, 2009, with its first performance at Denver's Buell Theatre.

In 2013, it was adapted and brought to stage by Taiwanese Greenray Theatre.[11] The story and characters remained unchanged, except the plot took place in a Taiwanese family.

  1. ^ Marrow, Martin (May 27, 2019). "August: Osage County: a tragicomedy about the deteriorating state of the American family, and more". Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  2. ^ D'Souza, Karen (August 4, 2009). "Tracy Letts' dark tragicomedy 'August: Osage County' opens in S.F. Aug. 12". East Bay Times. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  3. ^ Sharma, SD (September 10, 2016). "Tragicomedy 'August: Osage County' staged". Tribune India. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Isherwood, Charles (December 5, 2007). "Mama Doesn't Feel Well, but Everyone Else Will Feel Much Worse". New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2020. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad, this turbo-charged tragicomedy.
  5. ^ Blake, Jason (August 19, 2010). "August: Osage County". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved April 9, 2020. Tracy Letts, he of the trailer trash epics Killer Joe and Bug, does that and more in his scythingly funny tragicomedy August: Osage County, and when it comes to choreographing family dysfunction, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company does not put a foot wrong.
  6. ^ Reich, Ronni (April 8, 2008). "Pulitzer lights up 'August'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 9, 2020. Tracy Letts' play "August: Osage County," a blistering familial tragicomedy that has earned comparisons to the work of Edward Albee and Eugene O'Neill, on Monday was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
  7. ^ "AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY makes NZ premier". Scoop. July 29, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2020. Tracy Letts' epic tragicomedy about family, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, makes its eagerly anticipated New Zealand premier at the Maidment Theatre on September 2.
  8. ^ "Review: 'August: Osage County' blows the doors off the closet, and skeletons tumble out". Seattle Times. October 28, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2020. This searing, explosive (and Tony-winning) tragicomedy by Tracy Letts is making its Seattle debut on a national tour stop at the Paramount Theatre.
  9. ^ "Backstage History – August: Osage County". Steppenwolf. 2008. Archived from the original on May 2, 2008. Retrieved July 3, 2008.
  10. ^ "Headlines: August: Osage County Sets June 28 Closing Date". Broadway.com. June 17, 2009. Archived from the original on June 19, 2009. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
  11. ^ "關於我家" [About]. Greenray Theatre Company (in Chinese). Retrieved February 9, 2020.


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