The action takes place over the course of several weeks in august inside the threestory home of beverly and violet weston outside pawhuska. Osage county original, play, broadway opened in new york city dec 4, 2007 and played through jun 28, 2009. Created by the original team behind sparknotes, litcharts are the worlds best literature guides. He tells her that its not required reading, but for her. Osage county, a story of secrets and family dysfunction. Get all the key plot points of tracy lettss august. Osage county, which premiered in 2007, the dysfunctional and estranged weston family is brought back together after the. Sam shepard kicks off the screen adaptation of august. May have been better if theyd cared to execute the plot in a way that the. After taking broadway by storm, the family 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. Meryl streep heads a fine ensemble cast let down only by dowdy direction in this adaptation of tracy lettss play.
As mattie fae tells the story, she and charlie bicker back and forth about the details. Osage county opens with a prologue in which beverly weston hires johnna, a young native american woman, as a housekeeper and caregiver to his drugaddicted wife, violet. Osage hits close to home for writer tracy letts playwright tracy letts won the pulitzer prize for august. Lets take a look at the members of the weston family and what happens to them in august. His wife violet meryl streep, who is fighting mouth cancer and a growing dependency on pain pills, sees her entire clan return home for the services, including her sister mattie fae aiken. Osage county tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the. A concise biography of tracy letts plus historical and literary context for august. The play opens with beverly weston delivering a monologue about poetry and suicide, a foreshadowing of the events to come.
You better not say anything about my family right now, i mean it. Discussion of themes and motifs in tracy letts august. Welcome to the litcharts study guide on tracy lettss august. Osage county very little of this plays out like comedy. He then interviews johnna, a young cheyenne woman, for the position of livein caregiver for his wife violet, who is addicted to painkillers after being diagnosed with mouth cancer. Osage county is a black comedy by american playwright tracy.
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