In this play Foote revived characters which had been in his The Orphans' Home Cycle
of nine plays. Will Kidder— 64 years old in this play — was in his early twenties in Lily Dale
, and approaching middle age in Cousins
. Sixty-year-old Lily Dale Kidder was introduced in Roots in a Parched Ground
as a ten-year-old, and was portrayed in subsequent life stages in Lily Dale
and Cousins
. Her stepfather, 72-year-old Pete Davenport, first appears at age thirty in Roots in a Parched Ground
. According to the playwright, he thought he was done with these characters after Cousins
, but in the early 1990s found himself thinking about them again and started work on this play.
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