A unique, expansive look at one dysfunctional family on the brink of self-destruction, Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County heralded a new kind of voice in the American theatre. The play emerged from Letts’ own personal experiences growing up in Oklahoma. His grandfather, like the character Beverly Weston, was a poet who committed suicide when Letts was 10. His grandmother, like Bev’s wife Violet, turned to prescription drug abuse, which had left a lasting effect on his family. From this inspiration, as well as the unique, omnipresent landscape of rural Oklahoma in August, Letts weaves an
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