Beverly hires Johnna, lends her a book of T.S.

After an incoherent and combative argument with Beverly, Violet returns upstairs. Violet enters the scene clearly affected by her drugs. Beverly, who freely admits that he is an alcoholic, lightly converses about Violet's current problems, most of which Beverly concedes are the result of personal demons too powerful to be cured by drugs. Violet is a heavy drinker addicted to several different kinds of prescription drugs and exhibits paranoia and mood swings. The play opens with Beverly Weston, a once-famous poet, interviewing Johnna, a young Cheyenne woman, for a position as live-in cook and caregiver for his wife Violet, who is being treated for mouth cancer due to heavy cigarette use for most of her life. The action takes place over the course of several weeks in August inside the three-story home of Beverly and Violet Weston outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The story and characters remained unchanged, except the plot took place in a Taiwanese family. In 2013, it was adapted and brought to stage by Taiwanese Greenray Theatre. A US national tour began on July 24, 2009, with its first performance at Denver's Buell Theatre. The show made its UK Debut at London's National Theatre in November 2008. The Broadway show closed on June 28, 2009, after 648 performances and 18 previews. It had its Broadway debut at the Imperial Theater on December 4, 2007, and the production transferred to the Music Box Theatre on April 29, 2008. The play premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago on June 28, 2007, and closed on August 26, 2007. It was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Tragicomedy Ī large country home outside Pawhuska, OklahomaĪugust: Osage County is a tragicomedy play by Tracy Letts. A family is forced to confront its past and present.

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