The folks at 1-800-FLOWERS must be grateful there aren't more Violet Westons. Violet is the flakily savage matriarch at the heart of "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A prescription-drug addict who seems to take pleasure in emotionally brutalizing her daughters " in part because it proves her own strength " she is rude and cruelly manipulative, and she likes to keep her house at the t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:31PM on August 9, 2012