A review of the play appeared in the New York Times, November 26, 1977:

Theater: From Texas, With Love
by Thomas Lask

Although set in Israel, Aharon Megged's comedy, "A Visitor From Texas," which the Folksbiene is presenting on weekends through March at the Central Synagogue auditorium, is an amiable excursion into familiar territory: The effort of the parents of a marriageable daughter to arrange the best match for her.

Mr. Megged, an Israeli playwright, has added a fillip or two with a few jabs at his countrymen -- at the propensity of officials no matter how low on the executive ladder to rise "and say a few words," and at the maneuvering to evade military service, not so much by the young as by their parents for them. His blows land often enough, but hey don't do much damage. And with good reason. His play is as light as a soufflé and as porous, but it does supply a couple of pleasant hours on the stage.

Tamara, daughter of Binyamin and Yaffe, is single, a student and eligible for service in the Israeli Army. What her parents would like is to have her meet a young man of great prospects who will marry her and carry her off -- preferably to America -- where she will be free of guns and marches. Along comes a visitor from Texas, whose father owns a ranch half the size of the new state and has a family of about 3,200 cows.

The idea is to persuade him to stay long enough so that their unsuspected plans for him have a chance to jell. Their persuasion works better than they had anticipated, and with results they had not anticipated either. A couple of surprising twists at the end add to the hilarity of the evening.

The prime movers in the crack-brained happenings are Zypora Spaisman as the mother, and Jack Rechtzeit as the harried father. Miss Spaisman, more subdued than we have seen her before, adds a human dimension to what is a stock part. She is the mother-in-law of us all, sharp-tongued, unsleeping and not above telling a fib or two. But her love for her child shines through the hard-edged conniving she engages in.

Mr. Rechtzeit, put upon and manipulated, charges off in all directions at once. It's a broad part and broadly played. Marilyn Gold and Sandy Levitt make up a couple of naive lovers, the course of whose true love does not run smooth. Smaller roles are filled nicely.

Israel Beker's direction tends to emphasize the helter-skelter quality in the play -- a quality of which a little goes a long way. Sheftel Zak's translation from the Hebrew into the Yiddish is fluent and pungent. In fact, the great pleasure in a visit to the Folksbiene is the opportunity to hear the effervescent language used by experts.