The Carpetbagger's Children Director's Interview

Music titled "Genesis" is by artist Bert Jerred.

"The Carpetbagger's Children"
by Horton Foote
directed by Mark Ramont
January 21- February 13, 2011

In a series of charming, humorous and poignant vignettes, Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Children" weaves a captivating tapestry of family secrets, small-town lives and private tragedies. At the center of the play are sisters Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie, daughters of a Union soldier who moved south after the war. The sisters' bonds are challenged as they seek to preserve the family's Texas plantation in an era of startling growth and change. Director of Theatre Programming Mark Ramont ("The Rivalry") directs this powerful and thoughtful exploration of one family's life in the Post-Reconstruction South. Washington favorites Nancy Robinette, Kimberly Schraf and Holly Twyford star in the Ford's Theatre premiere of a play by one of the nation's most prolific writers for stage and screen.

The New York Times called Horton Foote "a major American dramatist whose epic body of work recalls Chekhov in its quotidian comedy and heartbreak, and Faulkner in its ability to make his own corner of America stand for the whole."

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• Horton Foote
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• Ford's Theatre
• Kimberly Schraf
• Holly Twyford
• Nancy Robinson