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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... read more

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First Sentence

During the action of the play, we visit sections of the ROBEDAUX and THORNTON houses, a section of a riverbank, and an alley in town.

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  1. Horton Foote (Author)

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