Be advised that this production contains cigarette smoke, strong language, drug use, violence, alcohol, and pedophilia.
Family Tree
Example of a Weston Family Tree from the Steppenwolf Theatre Production of August: Osage County
Poem “August: Osage County”
The Poem “August: Osage County” from the Book Family Album by Howard Stark where the Play’s Name Derives
Brief Summary and Note from the Dramaturg
It is a furnace-hot August in 2007 in the small, mid-western town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, USA, sixty miles northwest of Tulsa. Beverly Weston, alcoholic and former poet, has mysteriously disappeared after hiring a Cheyenne Native American as a live-in housekeeper for his pill-popping, chain-smoking wife Violet. With the disappearance of the patriarch, three generations of the dysfunctional Weston family gather together in the large country home on the baking mid-western plains for the first time in years where ensues drug abuse, alcohol abuse, verbal abuse, domestic abuse, addiction, wit, cancer, mental illness, academia, literature, infidelity, incest, suicide, secrets, resentment, and estrangement.
But throughout and above the chaos, August: Osage County is a play about family. It is a play about a group of people who, despite fierce vices and deep-rooted differences, are tightly bound by blood, vows, and a long, damaged history. And now, together for the first time in years, this family must deal with each other and with the decades of baggage each brings as 13 people meet face-to-face in the pressure cooker of a single house on the broiling American Plains.
Everyone has a family, no matter what form it takes, and every family carries its own history and its own baggage. Because of this universal connection, I leave audiences to spend the next few hours with the Westons to reel, to laugh, to empathize, and to see glimpses of their own family in the Westons; because sometimes we all need a good story, a good laugh, and a good reminder that we are not the only ones who are messed up.
List of Company: Names and Roles
Maury County Resources
Hope House - Maury County's Center Against Domestic Violence. Hope house offers immediate help for women in crisis. They also have a 24/7/365 hotline. They offer temporary emergency shelter, referral information and support groups. Their primary purpose is to encourage victims to become independent and self-supporting individuals. Call 931-381-8580.
Maury County Mental Health Center
1222 Medical Center Dr. Columbia, TN 38401
(931) 490-1500
Maury County Health Department
100 Blythwood Dr. Columbia, TN
(931) 388-5757
Family Planning (931) 388-4311
TennCare Eligibility Determination (931) 540-0055
Drug AA Abuse 24 hr. Action Hotline (931) 540-8020
Columbia Area Mental Health Center
1222 Medical Center Dr. Columbia, TN 38401
(931) 381-1396
A Listing of Family Therapists in Maury County
National Help Hotlines
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Hotline (800) 237-6237
Crisis Counseling Hotline (800) 444-9999
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (800) 729-6686
National Council for Child Abuse and Family Violence (800) 222-2000
National Institute on Drug Abuse Referral Line (800) 662-HELP
Suicide Prevention Hotline (800) 827-7571
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