Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton in
August: Osage County
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Tracy Letts’ multi-award-winning
August: Osage County is set to play an eight-week engagement at London’s National Theatre (in the Lyttelton space) beginning in November 2008. Specific performance dates, casting and additional information about the London production, which will be directed by Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro, is yet to be announced.
August: Osage County tells the tale of the Weston clan, triggered by the recent disappearance of the family patriarch. With insight and humor, Letts’ play paints a vivid portrait of a Midwestern family at a critical turning point.
The play received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and five 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Direction, Best Leading Actress (Deanna Dunagan), Best Featured Actress (Rondi Reed) and Best Scenic Design (Todd Rosenthal).
“August: Osage County is a tremendous play,” Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, said in a statement. “The Steppenwolf production of it lifted me out of my seat. I could not be happier to be presenting it to the British public.”
Currently playing on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, August: Osage County began life at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2007.