Mainstage Production directed by Ann Marie Pereth
October 25-November 17, 2019
Shows: 7:30 pm & 2 pm
The Usual Place
100 So. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas, NV 89101
Beverly Weston is missing. His children descend upon the family home to help support their acerbic, pill-popping mother while they search for the once-famous poet. Tempers are high, secrets are revealed and a family does everything it can to avoid healing in Lett’s hysterically touching portrait of life in the Midwest.
Producers’ Note (from the program)
Let’s talk about the plains.
That broad expanse of flatland and prairie lying west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rockies takes up nearly a quarter of the landmass of the United States. Decidedly NOT the Midwest, NOT the South, NOT the Northeast, the Great Plains defies regional specificity and definitive culture; Texas is part of the Great Plains, but so is Montana; half of Colorado and all of Nebraska are included, as well as most of Iowa; nearly all of Oklahoma. Flat and hot and mercurially fertile, the Great Plains can be as shocking in its emptiness as it is awesome in its unbroken vistas. But we had to have it: settlers to this enormous region pushed out untold numbers of native American communities and tribal populations, stage one of our 19th century doctrine of Manifest Destiny. That love affair didn’t last: since 1920, this tremendous swath of America’s heartland has lost nearly a third of its population resulting in thousands and thousands of acres left with a population of only 2 persons per square mile. In the 1930s it was known as “the Dust Bowl.”
The Weston family lives here – here, in this vast expanse of dry grass and steppe. The loneliness of the unending horizon is matched utterly by their shuttered home – sweltering and airless and in complete disarray. Some have fled this house, pushed out by a dysfunctional family dynamic and a history of casual substance abuse that turned a pair of once thriving, creative minds into self-imposed prisoners and jailers – in-patients, actually. Thrust together again by unexpected tragedy, this Oklahoma family quickly returns to the familiar routine of attack, parry, attack again. It’s recognizable, comfortable and, at the end of the day, terminal. And when they leave again – and leave they will, some of them – they’re simply mirroring the reality of this stark, deserted landscape.
For the Plains, such population loss is unsustainable. In fact, it’s been recently proposed to return approximately 140,000 square miles of this occasionally remote region to native prairie land.
JK and A-MP, October 2019
Behind the Curtain
APF is so excited to be producing August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. We are so excited that we can’t wait for you to see what we are doing! And keep checking back. We will be adding content regularly.
We want to thank our Scenic Designer, Eric A. Kroger, and Costume Designer, Hailey Eakle, for sharing their work in our behind-the-scenes preview.
Cast
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Cast

Gary Lunn
Beverly Weston is played by Gary Lunn. Gary has appeared in numerous productions in California and for the past 20 years in the Las Vegas …
Valerie Carpenter Bernstein
Valerie Carpenter Bernstein was raised in Oklahoma and, as a young adult, moved to LA and began working in television and film. A few of her LA roles provided …

Tina Rice
Tina returns to the A Public Fit company this year as Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa. She previously performed with APF as Judy in Foxfinder …
Jamie Carvelli-Pikrone
Jamie Carvelli-Pikrone is returning to A Public Fit to perform for one night only in An Oak Tree. Her previous acting credits with APF include …

Jasmine Kojouri
Karen Weston is played by Jasmine Kojouri. Jasmine is honored to be a part of this talented team. She performs all over town and may be recognized from some …

Barbara King
Barbara King plays Mattie Fae Aiken. Barbara recently appeared in A Public Fit’s staged reading of Three Tall Women as B. Her debut appearance with APF was in …
Timothy Cummings
Timothy Cummings performed up and down the Las Vegas Strip for over seventeen years at Caesars Palace, Excalibur, Tropicana, Flamingo, Stratosphere, and the Venetian and …

Andrew Calvert
Andrew Calvert is a native Brit who grew up in Newcastle Upon Tyne and later trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in …

Adam Martinez
Sheriff Deon Gilbeau is being played by Adam Martinez. Adam is very proud to be joining the talented artists that comprise A Public Fit Theatre …

Graciela Strahan
Johanna Monevata is played by Graciela Strahan. Graciela just moved back to Las Vegas after a year-long internship with the Walt Disney World Resort and …

Daniela Munafo
Jean Fordham is being played by Daniela Munafo. Daniela marks her community and professional debut with this production from A Public Fit. Her theatrical pursuits …
Brian David Sloan
Brian David Sloan plays Steve Heidebrecht. Brian is thrilled to finally make his debut at A Public Fit, having moved to Vegas from NYC in …
Jake Staley
Jake Staley is thrilled to be joining A Public Fit again this season. Previous APF credits include Things I Know to Be True, Appropriate, The …