Topic: Hallie Foote

The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part 1

If you think that nothing much happens in a Horton Foote play except for a lot of Texas porch palaver along the lines of " When Horace is 12, his beloved but dissolute father dies from drink. But the damage has been done ...

Dividing the Estate

The eternally spry Horton Foote does a nimble Texas two-step in Dividing the Estate. Half the play is a leisurely, courtly, astutely observed portrait of cultural and generational change; the other half is a quick, lively comedy of manners and manors in ...