The Orphans Home Cycle - Part Three - The Story of a Family

The 1918 Flu Epidemic strikes Harrison, and the Robedaux family is hit particularly hard.

Act Two: "Cousins"

Horace is called to Corella's bedside in Houston when she faces another operation. Meanwhile, as everyone attempts to sort through their complex family trees, the past haunts his cousins Minnie Curtis and Lewis Higgins

Act Three: "The Death of Papa"

The death of Elizabeth's father sends the Vaughn and Robedaux households into a tailspin while Horace struggles through the turbulent economy to keep his store open and support his family

M14,F8 (doubling) - Flexible Set

"The show is filled with riches ... The line that lingers near the end is a simple one - 'A family is a remarkable thing, isn't it?' It is. So is this theatrical event" ~ NY Daily News

" ... elevated and elemental, like Greek tragedythe action exists in a kind of suspended reality - not bound by the laws of time and faintly ritualistic ... temporal strangeness only heightens the complex pleasures of Foote's melancholy masterpiece" ~ New York Magazine

"Foote's final gift to the stage is glorious, an essential American masterwork ... " ~ BackStage

For the other two parts of The Orphans Home Cycle trilogy, click here