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Each of the three plays in the trilogy comprises three one-act plays. They are <i>The Story of a Childhood</i> (Part 1), <i>The Story of a Marriage</i> (Part 2), and <i>The Story of a Family</i> (Part 3). </p><p>The plays focus on Horace Robedaux, whose character was inspired by Foote's father, from Texas, at the turn of the 20th Century to the beginning of <a href="/wiki/The_Depression" class="mw-redirect" title="The Depression">the Depression</a>. The plays follow Horace through three decades, as "seen through three generations of three families."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Productions">Productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Orphans%27_Home_Cycle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the individual plays had been produced previously, either on stage, in film, or for television. Hartford Stage and the <a href="/wiki/Signature_Theatre_Company_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Signature Theatre Company (New York City)">Signature Theatre Company</a> co-produced the cycle. Foote said "It's incredibly moving to see all of these plays from my years of writing come together into the theatrical cycle that I've always envisioned."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cycle was produced at the Hartford Stage, <a href="/wiki/Hartford" class="mw-redirect" title="Hartford">Hartford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, in September 2009 through October 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cycle ran in repertory <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">off-Broadway</a> at the Signature Theatre Company from November 19, 2009 (Part 1), December 17, (Part 2), and January 26, (Part 3) through May 8, 2010. They (collectively) won the <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Lortel_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucille Lortel Award">Lucille Lortel Award</a> for Outstanding Play.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The director was <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(director)" title="Michael Wilson (director)">Michael Wilson</a>, sets by Jeff Cowie and David M. Barber, and costumes by David C. Woolard. An original score was composed by <a href="/wiki/John_Gromada" title="John Gromada">John Gromada</a>. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Bill_Heck" title="Bill Heck">Bill Heck</a>, Maggie Lacey, <a href="/wiki/Annalee_Jefferies" title="Annalee Jefferies">Annalee Jefferies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emily_Robinson" title="Emily Robinson">Emily Robinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hallie_Foote" title="Hallie Foote">Hallie Foote</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Payton-Wright" title="Pamela Payton-Wright">Pamela Payton-Wright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dylan_Riley_Snyder" title="Dylan Riley Snyder">Dylan Riley Snyder</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-New_York_Times_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_York_Times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2016, <a href="/wiki/Baylor_University" title="Baylor University">Baylor University</a>'s Theatre Department put on the first ever consecutive reading of all nine plays in the cycle, bookending its full-fledged production of <i>Story of a Marriage</i>. Horton Foote had a long relationship with Baylor's Department of Theatre Arts and was a good friend of Dr. Marion Castleberry, a graduate professor at the University and Foote's biographer as well as director of the Cycle. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_plays">The plays</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Orphans%27_Home_Cycle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Part 1, <i>The Story of a Childhood</i>, 1902-1911</dt></dl> <p>Act 1: <i>Roots in a Parched Ground</i>, 1902-1903; Act 2: <i>Convicts</i>, 1904; Act 3 <i>Lily Dale</i>, 1911. </p> <ul><li><i>Roots in a Parched Ground</i> was first presented on the television show "<a href="/wiki/DuPont_Show_of_the_Month" title="DuPont Show of the Month">DuPont Show of the Month</a>", in 1962 under the title <i>The Night of the Storm</i>. The cast featured <a href="/wiki/Julie_Harris_(American_actress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Julie Harris (American actress)">Julie Harris</a> as Julia, <a href="/wiki/E._G._Marshall" title="E. G. Marshall">E. G. Marshall</a> as Jim Howard, and <a href="/wiki/Mildred_Dunnock" title="Mildred Dunnock">Mildred Dunnock</a> as Grandma Robedaux.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Convicts</i> was made into a film and released in 1991, with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Duvall" title="Robert Duvall">Robert Duvall</a> as Soll Gautier and <a href="/wiki/Lukas_Haas" title="Lukas Haas">Lukas Haas</a> as Horace Robedaux.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Lily Dale</i> ran off-Broadway at the Samuel Beckett Theatre from November 20, 1986 to February 15, 1987. The cast featured <a href="/wiki/Molly_Ringwald" title="Molly Ringwald">Molly Ringwald</a> as Lily, later replaced by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Stuart_Masterson" title="Mary Stuart Masterson">Mary Stuart Masterson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also televised in the "<a href="/wiki/Hallmark_Hall_of_Fame" title="Hallmark Hall of Fame">Hallmark Hall of Fame</a>" series in 1996, with Masterson as Lily.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Part 2, <i>The Story of a Marriage</i>, 1912–1917</dt></dl> <p>Act 1: <i>The Widow Claire</i>; Act 2: <i>Courtship</i>; Act 3: <i>Valentine's Day</i> </p> <ul><li><i>The Widow Claire</i> was produced off-Broadway at the <a href="/wiki/Circle_in_the_Square_Theatre" title="Circle in the Square Theatre">Circle in the Square Theatre</a> from December 17, 1986 to April 26, 1987, with <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Broderick" title="Matthew Broderick">Matthew Broderick</a> as Horace Robedaux and Hallie Foote as Widow Claire.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Courtship</i> was filmed in 1987 with William Converse-Roberts as Horace Robedaux.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Valentine's Day</i> was filmed and released in 1986 with Matthew Broderick as Brother, William Converse-Roberts as Horace Robedaux, and Hallie Foote as Elizabeth Robedaux.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Part 3, <i>The Story of a Family</i>, 1918 to 1928</dt></dl> <p>Act 1: <i>1918</i>; Act 2: <i>Cousins</i>; Act 3: <i>The Death of Papa</i>. </p> <ul><li><i>1918</i> was produced in the 1990–91 season at the <a href="/wiki/American_Conservatory_Theater" title="American Conservatory Theater">American Conservatory Theater</a>, San Francisco, California.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Cousins</i> was first produced in 1983 at the Loft Theatre, Los Angeles, California.<sup id="cite_ref-list_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Death of Papa</i> premiered in 1997 at the Playmakers' Repertory Company, <a href="/wiki/Chapel_Hill,_North_Carolina" title="Chapel Hill, North Carolina">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a>, with Matthew Broderick and <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Burstyn" title="Ellen Burstyn">Ellen Burstyn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was produced by the Hartford Stage in June 1999 with <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Muniz" title="Frankie Muniz">Frankie Muniz</a> as Horace Robedaux Jr., Hallie Foote as Elizabeth Robedaux, and <a href="/wiki/Dana_Ivey" title="Dana Ivey">Dana Ivey</a> as Mary Vaughn.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Orphans%27_Home_Cycle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ben_Brantley" title="Ben Brantley">Ben Brantley</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> wrote of <i>The Story of a Marriage</i> that they "are both the starkest and most sentimental of this lovingly painted life-and-times portrait."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Simon_(critic)" title="John Simon (critic)">John Simon</a> called the cycle "absorbing and uplifting", and noted that it was "suffused with Foote’s almost uncanny humanity in portraying besetting hardships and hard-won victories, disheartening letdowns and dogged loyalties. Foote has a smiling empathy with all people."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Orphans%27_Home_Cycle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award" title="Drama Desk Award">Drama Desk Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <ul><li>Special Award, To the cast, creative team and producers of Horton Foote’s epic The Orphans' Home Cycle (winner)</li> <li>Outstanding Actor in a Play, Bill Heck (nominee)</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer Critics Circle Award">Outer Critics Circle Award</a></dt></dl> <ul><li>Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play (winner)</li> <li>Outstanding Director of a Play, Michael Wilson (winner)</li> <li>Outstanding Actor in a Play, Bill Heck (nominee)</li> <li>Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, James DeMarse (nominee)</li> <li>Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, <a href="/wiki/Hallie_Foote" title="Hallie Foote">Hallie Foote</a> (nominee)</li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/New_York_Drama_Critics%27_Circle" title="New York Drama Critics' Circle">New York Drama Critics' Circle</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <ul><li>Best Play (winner)</li></ul> <p>American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Award for Design "Notable Effects- for outstanding Production Design", David M. Barber, Jeff Cowie, David Woolard, Rui Rita, John Gromada, Jan Hartley (winners) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Orphans%27_Home_Cycle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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