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The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor
Horton Foote
The Carpetbagger's Children
by Horton Foote
Synopsis
THE STORY: In funny, moving, engaging monologues, three sisters spin the tale of their family and an era.
Their father, the eponymous carpetbagger, was a former Union soldier who used his post as county treasurer and tax collector to amass a Texas plantation of twenty thousand acres.
Preserving that plantation through the vicissitudes of their lives becomes a central issue for his daughters, Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie.
With echoes of The Three Sisters and King Lear , THE CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN explores the bonds of a family to the land that has shaped their identity, influenced their destiny and, like the family itself, undergone dramatic change with the passage of time.
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"…bittersweet music—[a] rhapsody of ambivalence…in its modest, garrulous way, [the play] is theatrically daring."
— The New Yorker
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The Carpetbagger's Children is a play written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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