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Classical in its breadth and scope, Horton Foote's nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle begins with a father's death in a small Texas town at the turn of the century, a loss that sends his son, twelve-year-old Horace Robedaux, on an odyssey through the darkest corners of the heart. Caught in the rift between his father's and his mother's families, Horace is separated from what family he has left to spend a horrifying year on a decaying plantation worked by black convicts from a nearby prison. Even more devastating is the reunion with his mother, his sister Lily Dale, and his new stepfather—a reunion that will leave him an orphan in spirit, if not in name.
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Luca Corvi
reviewed Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle on September 24, 2020 Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle
Horton Foote is among my favorites, though these short one or two act plays are mostly sad or painful as they follow young Horace Robedaux through his heartbreaking life.
The first, Roots in a Parched Ground, is set in small town Texas where 12 year old Horace and his 10 year old sister Lily Dale live with their grandparents. Their parents are separated and their father is dying.
In the second, Convicts, it's Christmas-time 1904 and Horace has been running the plantation store for his uncle and trying to collect six months of back pay ($11.50) from Mr. Soll the alcoholic plantation owner.
Lily Dale is the third play in the Cycle. It's 1910, Horace is twenty and has gone to visit his mother in Houston. His mother has remarried and his sister Lily Dale lives with them. Lily Dale is spoiled and selfish beyond belief and everytime she opens her mouth, I want to slap her. I hate her.
The Widow Claire is the fourth play. It's 1912, Horace is 22 and about to leave town for a six week business course in Houston. He's been spending time with Claire, 28, widowed, and the mother of two. He's clearly smitten. She's clearly juggling several men and options.
11/6/20: movie version of Convicts with Robert Duvall, Lucas Haas, and James Earl Jones.
There is a movie version, perhaps a Hallmark movie, of Lily Dale which I haven't been able to access. With Mary Stuart Masterson, Stockard Channing, and Sam Shepard
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