Living on stage—it is the foundation on which Company of Fools was built. August: Osage County brings the Company back to its roots in this complex ensemble-driven piece. It wouldn’t be a 20th Season without a play that shines a floodlight on family dynamics and on Company of Fools’ gift for telling stories of the human heart.

Synopsis:
By Tracy Letts, Directed by John Moon

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 tornado of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. One of the most important plays of recent years, August: Osage County unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.

In Tracy Letts’ ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional family drama comes roaring into the 21st century with eyes blazing, nostrils flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that you’re squirming in your seat even as you’re doubled-over laughing. –Variety