Convicts
by Horton Foote
What readers are saying
Readers find the second play in the cycle repetitive and lacking in engagement. One reviewer particularly highlights a sense of sympathy for the character Horace, indicating that the drama may not resonate well with everyone.
Synopsis
THE STORY: The recently orphaned Horace Robedaux is determined to buy a headstone for his father’s grave.
He goes to work on Soll Gautier’s isolated prison farm but soon discovers that his ill and senile employer is frightfully paranoid among the convict laborers who outnumber him.
Press Reviews
"Part of the nine-play cycle, The Orphans’ Home, which chronicles the fortunes of the Robedaux family of Harrison, Texas, in the 1900s. “CONVICTS is a juicy slice of Lone Star gothic, wherein the fourteen-year-old Horace is discovered working as an assistant to a grizzled old cane plantation owner who oversees a labor force of black prisoners. The basis for a 1991 film starring Robert Duvall, CONVICTS is a glorious and pathetic ghost story, in which people are doomed to haunt themselves."
— The New York Times
Publication
Convicts is a play written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service (2012).
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