The Day Emily Married
by Horton Foote

"Mr. Foote is a master of the distinctive art of balancing everyday domestic clutter over a pit of existential darkness…THE DAY EMILY MARRIED emanates an infectious, eerily familiar melancholy that keeps pricking at the memory like a wandering melody. I can think of no other playwright who is as harsh in his sentimentality as Mr. Foote is. His plays may radiate the burnished nostalgia of sepia-tone photographs, but he insists on your feeling that there is more ice than fire in their glow.” —The New York Times. “With THE DAY EMILY MARRIED, [Foote] strikes out in a new direction…absorbing, intermittently comic drama…a strong play…well-crafted.“ —New York Magazine. ”Foote's plays are rarely political in the most obvious sense, and certainly THE DAY EMILY MARRIED is not meant to comment on the lust for oil that has dominated Texas history. But in Richard Murray, Foote sets out an American male who dreams of being 'the number one man.' Intended or not, this look at Texas in 1955 brims w"

— Hartford Courant