Horton Foote Festival
Talking Pictures
By Horton Foote
Directed by Henry Wishcamper
It is 1929 in the town of Harrison, Texas. On the eve of the Depression, the residents of a small boarding house deal with myriad crises, small and large: the quarrels between estranged husbands and wives, the uncertain future of a railroad engineer, and the coming of the “talkies” to the local movie theater, which signals the end of an era (and a job) for the woman who plays the live music there. These potentially cataclysmic events are chronicled with gentle humor and deep compassion by Horton Foote, “the Chekhov of the small town,” in a play termed simply by Variety “a treasure.” Talking Pictures runs two hours with one 15 minute intermission.
Blind Date and The Actor
An Evening of One-Act Plays
By Horton Foote
In Blind Date, a well-meaning aunt tries to arrange the social life of her overwhelmingly reluctant niece, with hilariously unexpected results. And a young man’s determination to launch a career on the stage provides the basis for The Actor, one of Foote’s most affecting explorations of the family dynamic.
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