Join us for our next reading on February 25, when we’ll dive into Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, a heart-warming play about memory and the universal yearning for home. The reading begins at 2pm, so please arrive by 1:45pm if you’d like a chance to read.
We’ve secured the Play Set from the Vancouver Public Library, which includes nine copies for us to share. If you’d prefer your own copy, you can check one out through the Vancouver Public Library, or simply bring a copy from home if you have one.
ABOUT THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of an elderly woman who longs to escape her cramped Houston apartment to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, TX one final time before she dies. While her son and daughter-in-law are out of the house, Carrie escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman. The new friends travel toward Bountiful together, but when Carrie arrives, she begins to learn that her beloved town isn’t the same as she remembered it.
ABOUT HORTON FOOTE
Horton Foote’s distinguished career in American theatre, film, and television spans more than fifty years. Born in Wharton, Texas, he moved to New York to study acting, but he soon turned to playwriting and was rewarded with his first Broadway production in 1944 at the age of twenty-eight.
His success as a playwright led to television, for which he wrote some of the finest drama of its Golden Age, and ultimately to his career in screenwriting. His plays include Only the Heart, The Chase, The Trip to Bountiful, Traveling Lady, Cousins, The Death of Papa, Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Clare, and The Young Man from Atlanta. Screenplays he has worked on include To Kill a Mockingbird, The Chase, Tender Mercies, Nineteen-Eighteen, and The Trip to Bountiful.
Among his many awards are the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy award, and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Reading Theatre is created for those with a passion for live theatre. A live play reading of iconic plays over the ages. All are welcome and encouraged — from the seasoned professional to the inquisitive amateur and everyone in between.
Show up and read, or listen to others read these incredible shows. A short discussion may take place…or not. This is an event led by the cast and audience.
Readers will be chosen just before the play reading begins and will be cast by those who show up and express an interest in being involved. Some roles may be double cast.
This event is being led by Allan Morgan, Senior Artist in Residence and Vancouver theatre scene stalwart. We’d love to see you there!
ABOUT ALLAN MORGAN
Allan has been a stage actor for more than thirty years. Some highlights include appearing in London, GB, Adelaide Australia, Wellington NZ and San Francisco, all with The Overcoat. He appeared for several seasons at Bard on the Beach, notably in The Tempest as Prospero, as well as King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing.
He has toured across Canada with the Electric Company in Studies in Motion. He has appeared at The Belfry, notably in The Drawer Boy, Dirty Blonde, and I am My Own Wife for which he received the Victoria Critic’s Award for best performance. Other favourites include Red, Thinking of Yu, and Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre for ATP in Calgary.
Allan has two solo plays: I Walked the Line; and Pride: for the young gay, the ungay and the jaded queen in all of us.
