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Dividing the Estate

Presented by The Circuit Playhouse at The Circuit Playhouse

July 8-July 31, 2011

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Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family’s declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie. Don’t miss Horton Foote’s epic production, which The New York Times calls “A masterwork. A must for discriminating theatergoers…”

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    The Circuit Playhouse

    51 S Cooper
    Memphis, TN 38104

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    $33 - Adults $20 - Students, Seniors, Military $10 - Children $20 - All Tickets Opening Weekend

    Info Phone: 901-726-4656

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  • Dates & Times

    Dates:
    July 8-July 31, 2011

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    Thursday-Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm

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    • Event Name: Dividing the Estate
      "Review by Glenda Mace - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver"
      Comment posted by: Glenda Mace - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver from Memphis, TN, Jul 14, 2011
      

      Dividing the Estate opened at Circuit Playhouse, Friday, July 9 to a sold out house. Written by Horton Foote in the 1980’s and first produced at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in 1989, and was... Expand

      Dividing the Estate opened at Circuit Playhouse, Friday, July 9 to a sold out house. Written by Horton Foote in the 1980’s and first produced at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in 1989, and was substantially re-written for its 2007 opening at 59E59 St Theatres in New York. It moved to Lincoln Center and won the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and an Obie for Mr. Foote for playwriting. Mr. Foote, who was 92, died in March 2009 just months before the awards were presented. Director Ken Zimmerman has assembled a stellar cast for this comedy. Each is outstanding and a perfectly joined ensemble. The play is set in 1989 in Harrison, Texas, the small Texas town that is location to many of Mr. Foote’s sixty plays. Dividing the Estate is exactly what the play is about: The dwindling, genteel, once moneyed holdings of house and land that Matriarch Stella Gordon refuses to relinquish. In 1989 the estate exists as it has for years with two of Stella’s middle aged children still living at home and three servants who take care of the day-to-day upkeep. Stella’s grandson serves as financial manager and oversees the many acres. The daughter who escaped to Houston with her husband and two children is an infrequent but welcome visitor. Everything seems in order. On surface no crisis looms but one by one the heirs gather calling for their rightful share. The cracks in the foundation embodied by a clash of cultures, narcissism, greed and divided family loyalties appear and the estate that had been established just after the Civil War begins to unravel. Can you believe with that premise it is a comedy? It is a laugh out loud comedy. Mr. Zimmerman has found the cadence of the language and moves his cast to full advantage. Dividing The Estate plays Thursdays – Sundays at Circuit Playhouse through July 31. The stellar cast: Irene Crist, Dr. Anthony Bell, David Foster, Emily Peckham. Barclay Roberts, Christina Wellford-Scott, Lorraine Cotton, Joshua Quinn, Erica Jackson, Jai Johnson, Liz Sharpe, Anne Albrecht, and Emily Childers. Exceptional design: Scenic, Jimmy Humphries; Costume, Rebecca Powell; Lighting, Colin Chauche; Sound, Noah Glenn; Props, Becky Reed; Tech Dir. Kat De Camillo Collapse

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    • Event Name: Dividing the Estate
      "Review by Glenda Mace - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver"
      Comment posted by: Glenda Mace - ArtsMemphis Rants & Raver from Memphis, TN, Jul 14, 2011
      

      Dividing the Estate opened at Circuit Playhouse, Friday, July 9 to a sold out house. Written by Horton Foote in the 1980’s and first produced at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in 1989, and was... Expand

      Dividing the Estate opened at Circuit Playhouse, Friday, July 9 to a sold out house. Written by Horton Foote in the 1980’s and first produced at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in 1989, and was substantially re-written for its 2007 opening at 59E59 St Theatres in New York. It moved to Lincoln Center and won the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and an Obie for Mr. Foote for playwriting. Mr. Foote, who was 92, died in March 2009 just months before the awards were presented. Director Ken Zimmerman has assembled a stellar cast for this comedy. Each is outstanding and a perfectly joined ensemble. The play is set in 1989 in Harrison, Texas, the small Texas town that is location to many of Mr. Foote’s sixty plays. Dividing the Estate is exactly what the play is about: The dwindling, genteel, once moneyed holdings of house and land that Matriarch Stella Gordon refuses to relinquish. In 1989 the estate exists as it has for years with two of Stella’s middle aged children still living at home and three servants who take care of the day-to-day upkeep. Stella’s grandson serves as financial manager and oversees the many acres. The daughter who escaped to Houston with her husband and two children is an infrequent but welcome visitor. Everything seems in order. On surface no crisis looms but one by one the heirs gather calling for their rightful share. The cracks in the foundation embodied by a clash of cultures, narcissism, greed and divided family loyalties appear and the estate that had been established just after the Civil War begins to unravel. Can you believe with that premise it is a comedy? It is a laugh out loud comedy. Mr. Zimmerman has found the cadence of the language and moves his cast to full advantage. Dividing The Estate plays Thursdays – Sundays at Circuit Playhouse through July 31. The stellar cast: Irene Crist, Dr. Anthony Bell, David Foster, Emily Peckham. Barclay Roberts, Christina Wellford-Scott, Lorraine Cotton, Joshua Quinn, Erica Jackson, Jai Johnson, Liz Sharpe, Anne Albrecht, and Emily Childers. Exceptional design: Scenic, Jimmy Humphries; Costume, Rebecca Powell; Lighting, Colin Chauche; Sound, Noah Glenn; Props, Becky Reed; Tech Dir. Kat De Camillo Collapse

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