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August: Osage [a] County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on June 28, 2007, and closed on August 26, 2007. [9]
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play, August: Osage County centers around the Weston family, brought together after their patriarch, world-class poet and alcoholic Beverly Weston, disappears.
The idea of familial inheritance, dynastic weight, and the clamor for wealth and control that their family symbolized (and still symbolizes) within American history is evident in the pages of August: Osage County. The play’s central concern—the death of the patriarch of a troubled family—both mirrors and foreshadows the changes that would ...
“Packed with unforgettable characters and dozens of quotable lines, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a tensely satisfying comedy, interspersed with remarkable evocations on the cruelties and (occasional) kindnesses of family life.” —New York Sun.
Apr 17, 2019 · This article provides a brief synopsis, characters, and themes from one of the greatest American plays of modern theater, which won the 2008 Pulitzer.
August: Osage County full plot summary including detailed synopsis and summaries for each scene.
Dec 5, 2007 · A fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown, “August” is probably the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.
August: Osage County is a comedic drama about the Westons, a family who gather together inside their hot, musty old house in Oklahoma on account of their father’s mysterious disappearance....
Fresh from a thrilling, sold-out run at Chicago’s Tony Award-Winning Steppenwolf Theatre, August: Osage County had audiences riveted and critics raving. This thrilling new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tracy Letts (Bug, Killer Joe) has been hailed by The New York Times as “hugely entertaining!
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...
