The Young Man From Atlanta April 14, 2011

As a contribution to the Dallas-Fort Worth Horton Foote Festival, the Uptown Players present his Pulitzer prize-winning play, 'The Young Man From Atlanta.' The story is of a middle-aged couple whose rags-to-riches American Dream suddenly turns into a nightmare. Will Kidder has just moved into his new $200,000 home when he is let go by the company for whom he has worked for nearly forty years. He decides to start his own business and hopes to use the money he gave his wife and his late son, who committed suicide. But Will soon learns that both wife and son gave all their money to Bill's roommate, a young man from Atlanta, and Will is left to face a troubled and uncertain future. The Kidders' painful but often funny story won the 1995 Pulitzer prize for drama.