Synopsis

Courtship

$13

Horton Foote

Published by Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 5 Female

As gentle and warm as the spring night in which it takes place, the play is a mosaic of conversations and encounters that occur during a party at the home of a well-to-do family in Harrison, Texas in 1914

The Vaughns are substantial, God-fearing folk who expect their children to accept their standards, which sometimes seem unreasonable and oppressive to their lovely, romantically inclined daughter, Elizabeth

Secretly engaged to the rather rakish Horace Robedaux, Elizabeth announces her determination to break free, despite her parents' objections, and as she and her sister gossip about the others present, it is soon apparent that their elders are not always their betters and that the previous generation is often guilty of the very sins against which they warn their offspring

But, as the play ends, Elizabeth, while still restless, is not yet quite bold enough to really defy her parents - and to challenge the powerful but reassuring restraints that the times and a way of life have bequeathed to her and her contemporaries

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