SWINE PALACE invites you to celebrate the opening of our 20th Anniversary Season with the unforgettable dark comedy, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. Come over to America’s heartland and venture into the dangerous territory of one family’s callous relationships in playwright Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. The play has received numerous awards including the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2008 Drama Desk Award for Best New Play.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is set on the plains of modern day, middle-class Oklahoma. The Weston family members are intelligent, sensitive creatures who have the uncanny ability of making each other absolutely miserable. When the patriarch of the household mysteriously vanishes, the Weston clan gathers together to simultaneously support and attack one another.
TRACY LETTS has seen several of his plays adapted for the screen. Bug, starred Ashley Judd, and Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey, is currently filming in Louisiana. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is to be released as a feature film in 2013, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
By Tracy Letts
Directed by George Judy
October 26-November 13, 2011
Reilly Theatre
7:30 p.m. Performances:
10/26 Pay-What-Can, 10/27 Preview, 10/28 Opening,
11/2, 11/3, 11/4, 11/9, 11/10, 11/11
2:00 Matinee:
10/30, 11/5, 11/6 & 11/13