“August: Osage County” opens for two weekends in Aiken starting Oct. 18.
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play, “August: Osage County” centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears, according to information from the Aiken Community Theatre.
The matriarch, Violet, depressed and addicted to pain pills and “truth-telling,” is joined by her three daughters and their problematic lovers, who harbor 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 humor, vivacity, and intelligence, August: Osage County is is both dense and funny, vicious and compassionate, enormous and unstoppable, according to Aiken Community Theatre.
Shows will be at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 18-19, 25-26 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Aiken Community Theatre. Tickets are $15-$20. Go here for tickets.
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