August: Osage County



AUGUST:

OSAGE COUNTY

BY

TRACY LETTS

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY PREMIERED IN JUNE 2007 AT STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY IN CHICAGO, IL.

MARTHA LAVEY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; DAVID HAWKANSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

STEPPENWOLFS PRODUCTION OF AUGUST, OSAGE COUNTY OPENED ON BROADWAY AT THE IMPERIAL THEATRE ON DECEMBER 4,2002. IT WAS PRODUCED BY JEFFREY RICHARDS, JEAN DOUMANIAN, STEVE TRAXLER, JERRY FRANKEL, OSTAR PRODUCTIONS, JENNIFER MANOCHERIAN, THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY, DEBRA BLACK/DARYL ROTH, RONALD & MARK FRANKEL/BARBARA FREITAG, ANDRICK STEINER/STATON BELLGROUP

DIRECTED BY

MIKE KNARR & NATIHIAN G. SMITIH

SCENIC DESIGN BY

JON VICKERS-JONES

LIGHTING DESIGN BY

SUSAN L. POLAY

SOUND DESIGN BY

MATT EISSLER

PROPERTIES

MELISSA D. FOSTER

STAGE MANAGER

CHRIS WHITEFORD

ORIGINAL MUSIC BY

DAVID SINGER

PRODUCED BY

JERRY SAWYER

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

RICK GILMORE AND BRUCE FLEISCHER

*ABOUT THE PLAY*

Every once in awhile in the theater something pops up that is truly special. Truly original, truly different and amazing on all fronts. That would be August: Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize winning play you will see tonight. It is both contemporary America in the 21st century and timeless in its often brutally frank portrayal of the Weston family. It is a black comedy that takes virtually every social problem you can describe (Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Suicide just to get started) and makes them somehow painfully funny.

I feel very fortunate to get an opportunity to direct this play. I believe it will be produced many, many times inthe upcoming years and I sincerely hope you enjoy our production. Thanks and all credit to our cast, crackerjack production team and my friend and Co-Director Nathan Smith whose help was much welcomed.

MIKE KNARR DIRECTOR
 Performed September 20-28, 2013

*THE CAST*

Beverly Weston………………… Tom McClary

Violet Weston…………………… Melissa Lee Brannen

Barbara Fordham………………. Amy Farkas

Bill Fordham…………………….. Chris Brannen

Jean Fordham…………………… Madeline Biever

Ivy Weston………………………. Lindsey Allison

Karen Weston…………………… Lindsey Schrott

Mattie Fae Aiken……………….. Susan Kleit

Charlie Aiken……………………. Rod Egan

Little Charles Aiken……………. Rob Arnold

Johnna Monevata……………… Jackie Gianico

Steve Heidebrecht…………….. Steve Raybuck

Sheriff Deon Gilbeau…………. Christopher Hirsh

TIME & PLACE  August 2007  A large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, sixty miles northwest of Tulsa.