Title: August: Osage County
Author: Tracy Letts
Original language: English
Date of Original Publication: January, 2008
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 3 Acts running time 3 hours 15 minutes
Controlling License : Dramatist
Royalty Fees: $75 per performance
Cast Break down:
Male: 6 Characters
Female: 7 Characters
Bios of Tracy Letts:
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Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma) [1] is an American playwright and actor. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ...
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Tracy Letts first appeared on the Steppenwolf stage in the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of The Glass Menagerie. Some of Tracy?s performances at ...
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Plot Summary:
Briefly stated, the plot of "August: Osage County" involves a family reunion of a contemporary Oklahoma family, the dysfunctional Westons: the alcoholic and nihilistic patriarch Beverly, a retired professor and erstwhile poet who disappears and subsequently dies, apparently from suicide (the role played until his incapacitating illness by Dennis Letts); the matriarch Violet, suffering from cancer and addicted to prescription drugs and sadistic rhetoric; their three middle-aged daughters (Barbara, unhappily married to a college professor who is having an affair with one of his students; Ivy, whom her mother suspects of being a lesbian but who is involved in an incestuous affair with a male relative; and Karen, whose self-delusion allows her to believe her latest fiance, who smokes pot, molests a teenage girl and has been married three times, is a "perfect man"); a 14-year-old granddaughter Jean, who smokes marijuana and prides herself on not being a virgin; plus a set of in-laws featuring a domineering woman who has emasculated and cuckolded her husband and constantly belittles her son. Given this summary, it is not surprising that one reviewer lists the cast of characters as "pill-poppers, potheads, bed-hoppers, cradle-robbers, suicides and drunks."
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