August: Osage County

August: Osage County
by Tracy Letts

Silver Summit Theatre & Utah Rep | August 15 – 31, 2014

The performances are insightful and always on the same page, thanks to Mark Fossen’s direction, which tingles with tension. Fossen has a way of placing and moving actors so that relationships snap into focus. […] This production does more than justice to its no-holds-barred portrait of family relationships.

Salt Lake Tribune

Nothing about this production is simple. In every moment, they make the difficult choice. They choose funny, when the obvious answer is pathos. As a result, audience members are carried away in the story as we try to unravel and understand. The story is perfect. This cast is brilliant, and the director leads us on an unexpected journey.

Front Row Reviewers

Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning script develops each relationship thoroughly, and the very talented cast brought the characters to life so that each of their experiences felt real and relatable. With a large family of characters and relationships to explore, I was especially impressed by the way director Mark Fossen kept this production’s forward momentum had me hanging on for each new development.

Utah Theatre Bloggers

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.