Everyone has a place they call home. For Carrie Watts, home is Bountiful, Texas. And she’ll get there, no matter the cost. Horton Foote’s American classic has always been a quiet, sleepy play about an elderly woman who, in the sunset of her life, wants to go home. At its heart beats a story of hard-won liberation from stifling city life in Houston to the wide-open fields of Bountiful. But under Timothy Douglas’ conscious direction, he takes us on a much more complicated journey.
| Onstage |
| ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ |
| Where: Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda |
| When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; through April 10 |
| Info: $10 to $60; 240-644-1100; roundhousetheatre.org |
In a unique co-production with the Cleveland Play House, Round House Theatre stages the first version of Foote’s 1962 script to feature an all-black cast. It may look like the same cramped, two-room flat Mrs. Watts shares with her son and daughter-in-law, but we know that history tells a much different story.
