George Memorial Library will bring back Readers Theatre once again this summer, with local actors reading from plays performed both on and off Broadway.
Readings from two plays – “August: Osage County” and “Dividing the Estate” – will take place on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 7 p.m. in the library’s meeting room.
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and five Tony Awards, “August: Osage County” is a play written by Tracy Letts. This tragicomedy takes place on the old Weston homestead in Oklahoma after the patriarch of the family walks off into the sunset, never to be seen again.
The children come home to support their mother and the dysfunctional dynamics of the American family come to life.
“Dividing the Estate” was the last play written by Wharton’s most famous playwright, the late Horton Foote.
Like many of his other plays, this dark comedy takes place in the small town of Harrison, Texas. The heirs of the Gordon family patriarch come out of the woodwork in hopes of a piece of his estate – whatever it may be, if indeed there is anything at all.
Foote captures all the humor and pathos of small-town Texas, complete with the psychological dysfunctions that characterize its inhabitants.
The Readers Theatre is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call the library’s public information office at 281-341-2677.
