Talking Pictures
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 26, 2008
Closed Mar 2, 2008
Opened Jan 26, 2008
Closed Mar 2, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
It is 1929 in the town of Harrison, Texas. On the eve of the Depression, the residents of a small boarding house deal with myriad crises, small and large: the quarrels between estranged husbands and wives, the uncertain future of a railroad engineer, and the coming of the "talkies" to the local movie theater, which signals the end of an era (and a job) for the woman who plays the live music there. These potentially cataclysmic events are chronicled with gentle humor and deep compassion by Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," in a play termed simply "a treasure" by Variety.
Presented as part of the Horton Foote Festival.
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With a trip to Horton Foote's fictional town of Harrison Texas, theatergoers can generally count on meeting genuinely funny people caught in some deeply moving situations. Earlier this year, New York theatergoers witnessed a once-wealthy family from this West Texas town coping with its declining fortune in Foote's 1987 play, Dividing the Estate. Now, it's back to Harrison in Henry Wishcamper's beautiful revival of Talking Pictures, a richly layered comedy with a heart as big as the Lone Star State itself, being presented as part of the Goodman Theater's festival celebrating Foote's theatrical legacy.
Set in a boarding house -- which is brought to the stage marvelously in the round by sceni[...]