When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after patriarch Dad up and disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. A vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and three sisters harboring shady little secrets become a mixture of brutal honesty and hurtful truth as old wounds reopen and new ones form. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play that same year, August: Osage County examines how people function within dysfunction.

The Story

August: Osage County concludes our 7th Season, dubbed the “Season of Love.” This might sound odd, considering the extreme dysfunction of the immediate and extended members of the Weston family, but they are still family.

Family is the love cycle we are born into.  It’s the very first place we learn about love and how it works, how those around us express it, share it, and withhold it; our first lesson in love languages.  Violet’s love language was providing her three daughters with more than she had growing up—a college education—offering them opportunities she was never given. However, that language was foreign to them because what they really needed was an expression of love in actual words and touch, something neither of their parents ever mastered.

Violet brought with her to motherhood the ache and the pain of her own traumatizing childhood, but she gives her girls the only love she knew how to offer—the ability to choose something different for themselves—to break the cycle.

We are so excited you are here.  Please enjoy the journey of the “Weston Sisters.”

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