Osage County is in Oklahoma, about 300 miles north of Dallas. It is also the setting of a critically acclaimed Broadway play: August: Osage County. After a two year run on Broadway, the play is now on tour. Ina and I went to see it this weekend in the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. We loved it.
Estelle Parsons played Violet Weston, the razor-tongued matriarch of a family from Pawhuska, OK. Early on in the play, Violet’s husband of more than 30 years, a poet and former professor, mysteriously walks off into the summer night, never to be heard from again. The couple’s three adult daughters are called back to the family homestead, with their husbands or boyfriends, to comfort Mother in her time of need, and try to get to the bottom of Dad’s disappearance. The result is a highly combustive mix of past, present or future emotional damage.
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