Tag Archives: Horton Foote

Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire

The beginning of Horton Foote’s classic nine-play Orphans’ Home Cycle that follows one family at the turn of the 20th Century to the beginning…

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Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, To Kill a Mockingbird

A collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life.

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Courtship, Valentine’s Day, 1918

“These plays, with their unswerving human truths, are formidable creations.” —Eudora Welty

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Cousins and The Death of Papa

The final two plays of Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle both expand and contract the circle of a family that unifies all nine of…

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