The word “bountiful” writes a check that’s nearly impossible to cash. It promises riches, abundance, an ease and comfort existence can’t possibly provide. For elderly Houston widow Mrs. Carrie Watts, her hometown of Bountiful holds all those delights and more. In Horton Foote’s play, Bountiful stands for all of life’s past goodness. Can Mrs. Watts reclaim those beauties by fleeing her son’s house and boarding a bus? Or, more to the point, can you really go home again? – Cat McCarrey
