Horton Foote - Plays

Plays

See the article on The Orphans' Home Cycle for the series of nine plays concerning Horace Robedaux (an alias for Horton Foote's father, Albert Horton Foote Sr.), Elizabeth Vaughn (his mother Harriet Gauthier "Hallie" Brooks), and their extended families.

  • Wharton Dance (1940)
  • Texas Town (1941)
  • Only the Heart (1942)
  • Out of My House (1942)
  • Two Southern Idylls: Miss Lou / The Girls (1943)
  • The Lonely (1944)
  • Goodbye to Richmond (1944)
  • Daisy Lee (one-act) (1944)
  • Homecoming (1944)
  • In My Beginning (1944)
  • People in the Show (1944)
  • Return (1944)
  • Celebration (1950)
  • The Chase (1952)
  • The Traveling Lady (1954)
  • The Dancers (1954)
  • John Turner Davis (1956)
  • The Midnight Caller (1956)
  • The Trip to Bountiful (1962)
  • Roots in a Parched Ground (Orphans' Home cycle) (1962)
  • Tomorrow (1968)
  • Gone with the Wind (Author of book) (1972)
  • A Young Lady of Property (1976)
  • Night Seasons (1977)
  • Courtship (Orphans' Home cycle) (1987)
  • 1918 (Orphans' Home cycle) (1979)
  • In a Coffin in Egypt (1980)
  • Valentine's Day (1980)
  • The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees (1981)
  • The Old Friends (1982)
  • The Roads to Home: Nightingale / The Dearest of Friends / Spring Dance (1982)
  • The Land of the Astronauts (1983)
  • Cousins (Orphans' Home cycle) (1983)
  • The Road to the Graveyard (one-act) (1985)
  • Courtship/Valentine's Day (Orphans' Home cycle) (1985)
  • One Armed Man (1985)
  • The Prisoner's Song (1985)
  • Blind Date (one-act) (1985)
  • Convicts (Orphans' Home cycle) (1986)
  • The Widow Claire (Orphans' Home cycle) (1986)
  • Lily Dale (Orphans' Home cycle) (1986)
  • The Habitation of Dragons (1988)
  • The Death of Papa (Orphans' Home cycle) (1999)
  • Dividing the Estate (1989)
  • Talking Pictures (1990)
  • Laura Dennis (1995)
  • The Young Man From Atlanta (1995)
  • The Day Emily Married (1996)
  • Vernon Early (1998)
  • The Last of the Thorntons (2000)
  • The Carpetbagger's Children (2001)
  • Dividing the Estate (2008)

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