Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tracy Letts tragicomedy is about a dysfunctional family reunion in rural Oklahoma
“Dysfunctional” doesn’t begin to characterize the extended family of Beverly and Violet Weston of Pawhuska, Okla. Cancer-ridden and drug-ravaged matriarch Violet alone has enough personal demons to fill all of Osage County, and then some.
In the play, which premiered in 2007 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre and which was last staged locally in 2011 at the Old Globe, Violet Weston’s three daughters are among the throng that gathers at the Oklahoma house after the disappearance, and feared suicide, of patriarch Beverly. What ensues are the opening and re-opening of wounds, flying barbs, confrontations and until-then suppressed revelations.
Gilmour Smyth is joined by an all-star cast of mostly San Diego actors in this production, including her husband Robert Smyth, appearing as Beverly. The ensemble includes, among others, Megan Carmitchel, Faith Carrion, John DeCarlo, Kay Marian McNellan, Rob Lutfy and Jessica John and Anthony Methvin, Gercke’s co-founders in Backyard Renaissance.
Of managing the sweeping arc of the play, Gercke quoted Tony-winning actor Jefferson Mays who once said of “Hamlet” that it was best played one scene at a time. “Not to minimize it,” said Gercke, “but let the narrative run its course and let the story that Tracy Letts wrote build.”“I’m getting to love her more as we do it ,” said Gilmour Smyth, who first discussed playing the part with Gercke before the onset of the pandemic. “But I’m getting more and more exhausted by her.
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