A hauntingly lovely new take on the classic 1953 play about an elderly woman desperate to return to the tiny hometown of her childhood one last time before she dies.  This version features a beautifully surreal, evocative set by David Esler that looks like a wooden plank road extending into the distance, with props denoting stops along the way.  Overhead are floating windows with moving and changing projections of clouds, rain and a full moon. ... Bountiful is probably Texas playwright Horton Foote's most popular tale — and for good reason.  It's about family and home and roots and belonging to something greater than one's self.

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–Bob Curtright, Wichita Eagle          

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A sleek new look at Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic ... The Trip to Bountiful has a moving, contemporary relevance and fluidity.  One of the highlights of the evening that deserves much praise is the artistic set design by David Esler.  A raked swath of planks stretching upstage provides the central space in which the actors perform.  There are stunning lighting changes, and visual imagery projected on suspended overhead windowpanes allows the production to shift seamlessly from a small Houston apartment, to a bus depot, and eventually the family homestead at Bountiful.   Country-bluegrass musicians provide live, incidental music to underscore the mood. ... Fine performances and a beautifully streamlined script work well together to articulate a nostalgic elegy to the 20th-Century rural American family that is slowly fading from our 21st Century techno-urbanized worldview.

– Wichita City Paper          

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