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August: Osage County Summary. At the height of a swelteringly hot summer in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Beverly Weston hires a young Native American woman named Johnna Monevata as a live-in housekeeper.
Summaries. A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Violet Weston ( Meryl Streep) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol.
English. Subject. A family is forced to confront its past and present. Genre. Tragicomedy [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Setting. A large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. August: Osage [a] County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
August: Osage County study guide contains a biography of Tracy Letts, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
- Tracy Letts
August: Osage County is a 2013 American tragicomedy film directed by John Wells. It was written by Tracy Letts and based on his Pulitzer Prize -winning 2007 play of the same name. It is produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Jean Doumanian, and Steve Traxler.
AwardsCategoryNominee (s)ResultNominatedNominatedMeryl StreepNominatedJulia RobertsNominatedAugust: Osage County is a three-act play set in the present day in a small town in Oklahoma. In the play’s prologue, former poet and professor Beverly Weston interviews Johnna, a young Cheyenne woman, to be a live-in caretaker for his wife, Violet, who has mouth cancer.
As the horrifying revelations pile up—including incest, child molestation and mistaken paternity—and the battered participants slink off in despair one by one, "August: Osage County" rightfully boils down to the fates of Violet and Barbara, both left husbandless and damaged by the events.
