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A Hartford Stage, Signature Theater Company presentation of a play cycle in three parts and nine acts by Horton Foote. Directed by Michael Wilson. Horace Robedaux ... Bill Heck Elizabeth Robedaux ... Maggie Lacey Mary Vaughan ... Hallie Foote Henry Vaughan ... James DeMarse Corella Davenport ... Annalee Jefferies Horton Foote spent his life combing the commonplace to write plain-spoken family dramas that are compassionate yet brutally honest, and startling in their depth and resonance. In "The Orphans' Home Cycle," he folds nine related plays into three parts, crafting an intimate American epic that's at once personal and panoramic. Foote finished editing the cycle shortly before his death this year at age 92; the plays follow the 26-year journey of Horace Robedaux, based on the writer's father, from displaced child to... [read full story]
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