August: Osage County Press Release – February 20, 2023

The complex, hysterical, emotional catastrophe that is August: Osage County is coming to Yountville

Valley Players and the Town of Yountville present August: Osage County by Tracy Letts—March 10th through 26th at the Yountville Community Center.

NAPA, CA, February 20, 2023 – August: Osage County by Tracy Letts won both the Tony Award^® for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008 for a very good reason. It’s extremely well written, full of subtext, and it, as Jay Reiner of The Associated Press wrote, “will lift you out of your seat with laughter one moment and stun you into silence the next.” It is brilliant—almost Shakespearean; each scene is deceptively simple, yet the themes of the play range from the familial to the historical.

The story? 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.

August: Osage County is directed by June Alane Reif and features Marty Kassman, Anna Li, Randi Storm, Georgia Taylor, Nancy Heine, Dan Monez, Rhonda Bowen, Richard Pallaziol, Kira Tavakoli, Christina Julian, Craig Rekdahl, Michael Hunter and Scott Slagle. Produced by Valley Players with thanks to the generosity of the Town of Yountville and partial funding by a Community Fund Grant from Arts Council Napa Valley.

Showtimes are March 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 & 25 at 7 pm, March 12, 19 & 26 at 2 pm at the Yountville Community Center. August: Osage County is intended for mature audiences.

For tickets and more information, visit valley-players.com.