Three women on stage look at the audience. To the left, one sits in a rocking chair. In the center, one sits at a table full of framed photographs. To the right, one stands and rests her hands on the back of a chair.

Nancy Robinette, Kimberly Schraf and Holly Twyford in The Carpetbagger’s Children (2011). Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

The Carpetbagger’s Children

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 life and private tragedies.

January 21, 2011 — February 13, 2011

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. An Academy Award-winning playwright, Foote won the 2002 Steinberg/American Theatre Critics New Play Award for The Carpetbagger’s Children. 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.

Artistic Team

Written by Horton Foote

Director Mark Ramont

Scenic Design Robin Stapley

Costume Design Helen Huang

Lighting Design Matthew Richards

Original Music and Sound Design Matthew M. Nielson

Wig Design Anne Nesmith

Dialects Leigh Wilson Smiley

Production Stage Manager Brandon Prendergast

Assistant Stage Manager Kate Kilbane

Cast

Nancy Robinette

Grace Anne

Kimberly Schraf

Cornelia

Holly Twyford

Sissie

Tory Carter

Other Voices

Stephen F. Schmidt

Other Voices

From the Gallery

A woman in a floral dress sits at a table and speaks. A woman across the table looks at her lap. Behind the two of them a third woman sits in a rocking chair.

Holly Twyford as Sissie with (background) Kimberly Schraf as Cornelia and Nancy Robinette as Grace Ann in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

A woman in a floral dress sits in a chair next to a table and looks at a framed photograph in her hands. Behind her an older woman in a skirt, blouse and jacket sands and speaks while resting her hands on the back of the chair.

Holly Twyford (seated) as Sissie and Kimberly Schraf as Cornelia in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

A woman sits in a rocking chair. Next to her is a table on which are three framed photographs, a glass of iced tea and fan. Two other women in dresses stand behind her.

(Seated) Kimberly Schraf as Cornelia, Holly Twyford as Sissie, and Nancy Robinette as Grace Ann in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

An older woman in a purple dress sits in a rocking chair and holds up her hands. A table next to her holds three framed photographs, a glass of iced tea and fan.

Nancy Robinette as Grace Ann in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Nancy Robinette as Grace Ann, Kimberly Schraf as Cornelia and Holly Twyford as Sissie in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

A woman in a purple dress sits on a rocking chair and speaks to a standing woman in a skirt, blouse and jacket.

Nancy Robinette as Grace Ann and Kimberly Schraf as Cornelia in the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, directed by Mark Ramont. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.