Plays by Author - Horton Foote

Roots in a Parched Ground

Horton Foote

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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 of he...

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The Old Friends

Horton Foote

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3 Male 6 Female

Matriarch Mamie Borden and the remaining members of two longtime Texas farming families await a visit from Mamie's son Hugo and his wife, Sybil When Sybil arrives, alone, with alarming news, old friends on ...

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A Coffin in Egypt

Horton Foote

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0 Male 3 Female

Myrtle Bledsoe - a ninety-year-old Texas widow - looks back on the dramatic events that caused a small Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife This "almost-monologue" is a haunting tale ...

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

Horton Foote

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Act One: "1918" 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 operat...

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The Orphans Home Cycle - Part Two - The Story of a Marriage

Horton Foote

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Act One: "The Widow Claire" On the night before he leaves Harrison for business school in Houston, Horace calls on the widow Claire Ratliff. Over the course of the evening he becomes further entangled in th...

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The Orphans Home Cycle - Part One - The Story of a Childhood

Horton Foote

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Act One: "Roots in a Parched Ground" When his father dies and his mother and sister move to Houston, Horace Robedaux is left behind in Harrison, Texas with his feuding relatives, the Robedauxs and the Thorn...

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Getting Frankie Married - and Afterwards

Horton Foote

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4 Male 8 Female

Frankie, a traditional girl from a traditional town, has been leading an untraditional life. For over twenty years she has been Fred's girlfriend, and though she longs to be married, Fred has never asked ...

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The Carpetbagger's Children

Horton Foote

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0 Male 3 Female

In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era. Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as county treasurer an...

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The Tears of My Sister and Other Plays

Horton Foote

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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 no...

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The Roads to Home - Three Inter-related One-act Plays

Horton Foote

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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 o...

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The Midnight Caller

Horton Foote

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2 Male 5 Female

Over the years Miss Farnsworth, now nearing 50, has found the world of reality to be a more and more painful experience, and has begun drifting off into increasingly frequent and wildly extreme fantasies ...

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Valentine's Day

Horton Foote

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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 Pate ho...

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Cousins

Horton Foote

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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 sur...

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