Meryl Streep
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Intro. August: Osage County Summary. Next. Prologue. 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.
by Tracy Letts. Buy Study Guide. August: Osage County Summary. The play opens with Beverly Weston delivering a monologue about poetry and suicide, a foreshadowing of the events to come.
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Origins of the play's name. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. August: Osage County. For the film based on the play, see August: Osage County (film). August: Osage [a] County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Plot. The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Beverly Weston, an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young Cheyenne woman, Johnna, as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet, who has oral cancer and an addiction to narcotics.
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.
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The play August: Osage County opens with a prologue in which Beverly Weston hires Johnna, a young Native American woman, as a housekeeper and caregiver to his drug-addicted wife, Violet. Act One...
