Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote’s play comes to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, February 21 – March 1
Boston, MA – Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre presents The Traveling Lady, a play that chronicles the challenges of a family in a small Texas town. Staged at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, Wimberly Theatre, The Traveling Lady runs February 21 – March 1, 2014.
THE TRAVELING LADY
Horton Foote, playwright
Sidney Friedman, director
A woman and her daughter arrive in a small Texas town on the hunt for their husband and father, a supposed recent parolee.
Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Friday, February 21 & Saturday, February 22, 8pm
Sunday, February 23, 7pm
Tuesday, February 25, 7:30pm (ASL Interpreted and Talk-Back)
Wednesday, February 26, 7:30pm (ASL Interpreted)
Thursday, February 27, 7:30pm (Talk-Back)
Friday, February 28 & Saturday, March 1, 8pm
Written by playwright Horton Foote, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and author of The Trip to Bountiful, The Traveling Lady contains all the markings of family, struggle, challenge, and choices that Foote often explores in his works.
“Most of Horton Foote’s plays are about families: their formation, their struggle to survive, and sometimes their dissolution. Life challenges his characters and their families with terrible blows,” explains the play’s director, Sidney Friedman. “In The Traveling Lady, too, most of the characters face substantial losses; each family is threatened. Some implode. Others find the resilience, the determination, and–most of all–the love to persevere, even in some cases to flourish in spite of life’s adversities.”
Dramaturg & Assistant Director, Robert Lucchesi explains that “the characters in The Traveling Lady confront the effects of alcoholism, poverty, and broken families,” but that Foote’s plays “aren’t about single social issues; instead they are about the people struggling with them.” He quotes Foote himself, “’I don’t really take positions, but I certainly think that openness about anything is better than not facing things. We are more open now, certainly, but we haven’t shed entirely our desire to face away from some pretty harsh truths.’”
TICKETS
Tickets now on sale: $12 general admission; $10 BU Alumni, WGBH and WBUR members, Huntington Subscribers, senior citizens students; $6 CFA Membership; one free ticket with BU ID at the door, subject to availability. Box Office: bostontheatrescene.com or 617.933.8600.