: The eldest daughter, who attempts to take control of the family chaos ("I'm running things now!") but finds herself increasingly mirroring her mother’s aggression and bitterness.
The play is set in a large, stifling house in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, during a sweltering August. The narrative is catalyzed by the mysterious disappearance—and subsequent suicide—of the family patriarch, Beverly Weston, a once-prominent poet and full-time alcoholic. His death forces a chaotic reunion of the Weston clan, including his pill-addicted widow, Violet, and their three estranged daughters: Barbara, Ivy, and Karen. August: Osage County
: The "middle" daughter and her cousin, who are secretly in love. Their relationship is revealed to be incestuous, as Little Charles is actually Beverly's biological son from an affair with Violet’s sister, Mattie Fae. : The eldest daughter, who attempts to take
: Often classified as a dark comedy or a modern Southern Gothic drama, it uses grotesque family dynamics to provide a "scintillating criticism" of the modern American family structure. His death forces a chaotic reunion of the