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The Midnight Caller
Horton Foote
Talking Pictures
by Horton Foote
Synopsis
THE STORY: 1929, Harrison Texas.
Myra Tolliver makes her living playing the live music for the silent pictures.
She makes barely enough to survive, caring for herself and her teenage son, Pete.
As borders in the home of the Jacksons, Myra supplemen
Press Reviews
"[Foote's] carefully mapped southern Texas world of sweet and small passions has a depth and complexity, a poetic feel for the littleness of the human comedy, that makes him a giant among his contemporaries."
— New York Post
"Foote sensitively portrays the small moments in ordinary lives. Schoolgirl crushes, suicidal rage, and the ache of loneliness are given full resonance by this dramatist with Tennessee Williams's sympathetic soul and William Inge's camera-like eye for the everyday.“ – BackStage ”I love Horton Foote's writing… Foote's plays… take their time to pull you in and work their magic, but work their magic they do, granting star status to the passions and dreams and frustrations of actual American people… The play is a treasure."
— Variety
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1996
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822214625
ISBN-10 0822214628
LCCN 97178233
LCC PS3511.O344 T35 1996
DCC 812/.54
Talking Pictures is a American play written by Horton Foote and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1996).
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