Author Horton Foote with Foreward by John Guare
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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…
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