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August: Osage 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.
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. Interviewing her in his disarrayed study, he explains that his and his wife Violet ’s addictions—to alcohol and pills, respectively ...
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Feb 1, 2008 · Tracy Letts. Tracy Letts is an American playwright and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County.Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to best-selling author Billie Letts, of Where The Heart Is and The Honk And Holler Opening Soon fame, and the late college professor and actor Dennis Letts.
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Feb 17, 2021 · Originally produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in June 2007, August: Osage County opened on Broadway in December 2007 and won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The play takes place in midsummer in “Pawhuska, Oklahoma, sixty miles northwest of Tulsa,” in the “rambling ...
Dec 19, 2013 · Interview: Tracy Letts Talks. August: Osage County. The playwright discusses the limits of control and his opinion that his own mother is “a goddamned liar.”. You know you’re dealing with an assertive artist when he’s the one who starts the interview. Before I even sit down to speak with Tracy Letts, the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Apr 17, 2019 · Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Tracy Letts’ darkly comic drama August: Osage County is worthy of the praise it has received from critics and audiences. Hopefully, the play will be embraced by college professors, for the text is rich with compelling characters and scintillating criticism of the modern American family.
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! A ripsnorter full of blistering, funny ...
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