August: Osage County

A hugely-acclaimed black comedy exposing the dark side of the Midwestern American family.

When the large Weston family is reunited in Oklahoma after the disappearance of their father, they let loose a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets.

Tracy Letts's play August: Osage County was first performed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in June 2007.

It was first staged in the UK at the National Theatre in 2008.

August: Osage County won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and the Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.

'One of the truly great nights of American theatre'— Independent

'Something special... a dramatic tour de force, first smouldering and then blazing with acrimony, appalling behaviour and vicious home truths'— Telegraph

'Fully deserves to join the roll call of classic American plays'— Independent on Sunday

'A triumph'— Sunday Times

'Sensationally entertaining...Tracy Letts' fiercely funny, turbo-charged tragicomedy is, flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years'— New York Times

Best New Play, Critics' Circle Awards

Best Play, Tony Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Winner of Best New Play, Critics' Circle Awards. Winner of Best Play, Tony Awards. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2008

“'something special... a dramatic tour de force, first smouldering and then blazing with acrimony, appalling behaviour and vicious home truths'”

'One of the truly great nights of American theatre'

'Fully deserves to join the roll call of classic American plays'

'A triumph'

'Sensationally entertaining...Tracy Letts' fiercely funny, turbo-charged tragicomedy is, flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years'

Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor, and is an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County.Other plays include: Killer Joe (1993), Bug (1996), Superior Donuts (2008), Mary Page Marlowe (2016) and Linda Vista (2017).

A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the extended Weston family is reunited after dad disappears, the Oklahoma household explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. After a sell-out run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, "August: Osage County" has been hailed on Broadway as the 'best American drama of the past decade' ("USA Today"). Its themes of family secrets and retribution - and its truly epic scope - had critics rushing to declare its author the new Eugene O'Neill.

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