Horton Foote is unique. Nobody today writes like him in the soft Southern tone that quietly places you in the house with friends to become part of their lives. In The Day Emily Married, now at 59E59 Theater, exposition is gently slipped into the seemingly mundane conversation of this Texas family in 1925, and there is not a dull moment in the ordinariness of these peoples' dialogues in this moment of possibility, frustration, pain, and insight into the human heart. With extraordinary performances by the amazing Estelle Parsons in the complex role of an off-center woman, the tender Hallie Foote who is always inside her roles, and Biff McGuire as the aging man trying to hold it together, and fine performances by the rest of the cast, directed by Michael Wilson, this production is a wonderful highlight to begin the Theater season.
