Barefoot in the Park A revival production toured the United Kingdom in 2012. The cast included Maureen Lipman, Faye Castelow, Dominic Tighe, and Oliver Cotton. The play was directed by Lipman in partnership with Peter Cregeen. Corie and Paul Bratter are a newlywed couple. For their first home, they live in an apartment on the top floor of a brownstone in New York City. During the course of four days, the couple learns to live together while facing the usual daily ups-and-downs. Corrie wants Paul to become more easy-going: for example, to run "barefoot in the park." Simon adapted his play for a 1967
Horton Foote ... So in other words, you have to get both our permissions to do it." Playwright Lillian Hellman adapted his play for the 1966 film "The Chase", with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. Foote provided the voice of Jefferson Davis for Ken Burns' critically acclaimed documentary, "The Civil War" (PBS, 1990), and adaptations of his plays "The Habitation of Dragons" (TNT, 1992) and "Lily Dale" (Showtime, 1996) preceded the Showtime production of "Horton Foote's Alone" (1997). His final work was the screenplay for "Main Street", a 2010 dramatic film. Foote was awarded an honorary doctorate from Carson-Newman University.