August: Osage County

' ***** Robyn Nevin cements herself as the grand dame of the Australian stage.' Sunday Herald Sun

‘It's a hell of a play ... Director Simon Phillips is in his element.’ The Age

‘This spectacular piece of work is worth every minute.... Don’t miss it.’ Theatres People

‘Theatre at its bitter traumatic best.’ City Search

So what that Mom pops pills like circus peanuts? Or that these three sisters would be Chekhov’s worst nightmare? Who needs happy marriages and kids who make you proud? Good or bad, family is family. So when the Old Man goes missing, it's up to everyone to drop what they’re doing and haul their burdens of resentment and their sorry asses back home to Osage County, Oklahoma.

You can’t choose your relatives. A smash on Broadway, Tracy Letts’s caustic, darkly funny August: Osage County rewrites the grand American family drama for our cynical and confused age.

Photography: Earl Carter
Web Video: Josh Burns