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Genesis of an American Playwright
One of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early experiences as an actor in the theater, to his mature…
Three Plays - Dividing the Estate & The Trip to Bountiful & The Young Man from Atlanta
Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas scribe, this book collects three of Foote’s most recognized plays In these works, Foote deftly combines the claustrophobia…
The Shape of the River - The Lost Teleplay about Mark Twain with History and Analysis
Published for the first time and reprinted from the only surviving copy of the script, which was discovered in the CBS-TV vaults, Applause is proud to present The Shape…
A Young Lady of Property & Six Other Short Plays - The Dancers & The Old Beginning & John Turner Davis & The Death of the Old Man & The Oil Well
In A Young Lady of Property Wilma, a lonely girl of fifteen, lives with her aunt. Her mother is dead, and her father, who is weak and not too reliable, goes out with a Mrs Leighton, a woman of whom the…
The Tears of My Sister & The Prisoner’s Song & The One-Armed Man & The Land of the Astronauts
The Tears of My Sister follows Cecilia as she watches her sister Bessie try, and fail, to avoid marrying a man she doesn’t love. Both young girls come of age in their own way as they learn that life is…
The Roads to Home - Three Inter-related One-act Plays - A Nightingale & The Dearest of Friends & Spring Dance
9 Male, 5 Female
In the first play - A Nightingale - Mabel, and Vonnie, two Houston neighbors and best friends, both refugees from small Texas towns, are forbearing and patient about the protracted and uninvited visits…
Roots in a Parched Ground
9 Male, 5 Female
The Robedaux family has been divided by the exigencies of an unhappy fate. Julie Robedaux has moved back to her family’s house with the children, Horace, Jr. and Beth Ruth, and has enlisted the help…
The Widow Claire
8 Male, 2 Female
After returning to Harrison, Texas, from his disastrous visit with his mother and sister (and his new stepfather) in Houston, Horace Robedaux has moved into a local boarding…
The Chase
8 Male, 3 Female
Sheriff Hawes, honest and sincere peace officer, wearied with his job and its usual run of irritating problems, such as runaway boys, small robberies and the like, is making plans for his retirement A…
Cousins
8 Male, 6 Female
It is 1925. Horace and his wife, Elizabeth, have two sons, and Horace is making a modest living as proprietor of his own clothing store. Called to Houston due to his mother’s sudden illness and impending…
Night Seasons
7 Male, 6 Female
The play takes place in Harrison, Texas, jumping back and forth between 1923 to 1963. Following the Weems family as it grows up, we watch its members find their places in society ... Mr. Weems is a banker…
Valentine’s Day
6 Male, 4 Female
The time is Christmas Eve, 1917, America is caught in the toils of World War I. Horace Robedaux and Elizabeth Vaughn, having married despite the objections of her parents, have rented rooms in the…
The Trip to Bountiful
6 Male, 3 Female
This is the poignant story of Mrs Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing…
1918
6 Male, 7 Female
Having been exempted from military service in World War I, Horace Robedeaux is back home in Harrison, Texas He and his wife Elizabeth, along with their infant daughter, are now settled in a new house built…
The Young Man from Atlanta
5 Male, 4 Female
“The Young Man from Atlanta, a kind of elected ignorance has skewed the past and narrowed the future, for the Kidders, Lily Dale and Will. The two are attempting to cope with…
Vernon Early
5 Male, 7 Female
Vernon Early revisits American life in Horton Foote’s fictional town of Harrison, Texas, during the 1950s. The title character, Vernon, is a doctor, in the days when the house call was commonplace…
Talking Pictures
5 Male, 6 Female
1929, Harrison Texas. Myra Tolliver makes her living playing the live music for the silent pictures. She makes barely enough to survive, caring for herself and her teenage son, Pete As borders in the home…
Laura Dennis
5 Male, 8 Female
Laura Dennis lives with Lena Abernathy in Harrison, Texas. Her mother left Harrison years ago, after her father killed his cousin then died when Laura was very young Writing to her mother, who now lives…
The Traveling Lady
4 Male, 6 Female
The story is set in a small town in Texas. Georgette Thomas and her small daughter arrive, looking for Georgette’s husband who, she believes, has just been released from the penitentiary As…
Lily Dale
4 Male, 3 Female
After the death of his alcoholic father, and his mother’s remarriage, young Horace Robedaux remained in Harrison, Texas, clerking in a dry goods store When his mother invites him to visit her and…
The Death of Papa
4 Male, 7 Female
The play begins by introducing the next generation of Robedauxs in the person of Horace’s son, Horace Jr., who comes home from school to find that his maternal grandfather, Henry Vaughn, has died suddenly…
The Man Who Climbed Pecan Trees
3 Male, 2 Female
The character of the title is Stanley Campbell, publisher of the local newspaper in Harrison, Texas, who has taken to climbing the pecan trees in the Courthouse Square when he is in his cups — which, of…
The Last of the Thorntons
3 Male, 7 Female
Not only does town busybody Fannie Mae bring medication to the residents of a nursing home in Harrison, Texas, she also brings the gift of gab and a thorough command of local knowledge, useful among folks…
