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  2. Jun 22, 2017 · Horton Footes 1954 drama of repression is given an affectionate if muddy revival.

  3. Mar 5, 2009 · March 4, 2009. Horton Foote, who chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and who left a literary legacy as one of...

  4. Jun 22, 2017 · The play, about a woman hoping to reunite with a husband recently released from prison, takes place entirely on a back porch in Harrison, Texas, the small town Foote created as a stand-in for his actual hometown of Wharton, Texas. That’s where the playwright was born in 1916, a year after Arthur Miller and five years after Tennessee Williams.

  5. Jan 1, 1998 · The Traveling Lady is an interesting play by Horton Foote, a slice-of-life of mid-1950s small town Texas, with tragedy, pathos and love. With a sparse cast and pin-point dialogue Foote created a drama that is affective and lingering.

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  6. Mar 6, 2006 · This trimmed-down "Lady" originated in 2004, the bittersweet drama is one of the most enchanting chapters in Horton Foote's homespun cycle of plays set in Harrison, Texas, celebrating a...

  7. www.backstage.com › article › traveling-lady-56216The Traveling Lady - Backstage

    Aug 15, 2012 · In the course of his 92 years, Horton Foote wrote 60-some plays, most set in small-town Texas, won two Academy Awards (for his screenplays for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Tender Mercies"),...

  8. Jun 23, 2017 · There is something at once charming and bittersweet in the residents of Harrison, Texas. Small-town life is a Horton Foote specialty — and The Traveling Lady — a tender tale of sorrow and redemption, set in 1950, is a beautifully understated work.

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