Dividing the Estate
Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in 1989 and Off-Broadway in 2007, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
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Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in 1989 and Off-Broadway in 2007, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
A newlywed couple, Emily and Richard Murray, move into the house of her parents. Emily had divorced her first husband. She soon finds herself caught between her seemingly-ideal husband and her family. Her parents, Lyd and Lee Davis, are loving but also controlling. Lee plans on selling his own farm and some property, to help Richard set up a business.
Horton Foote’s theatrical cycle comprises three plays, each made of three one-act plays, following Horace Robedaux from 1902 through 1928 and the Depression’s beginning. Across three generations of Texas families, the cycle traces his childhood, marriage and family life.
The Trip to Bountiful is a play by American playwright Horton Foote. It was first performed on March 1, 1953, on NBC television before premiering on the Broadway stage in November 1953. The play depicts an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, "who has to live with a daughter-in-law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side." While residing with this unhappy family in a Houston apartment, Watts dreams of returning to the tiny town of Bountiful, Texas where she was raised. She manages to escape the apartment and embarks by bus to her destination. She meets several people along the way. Her stay in Bountiful is brief as she is whisked back to Houston by her son and daughter-in-law. The play was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1985.
In 1950, Will Kidder, age 64, is at his office at the Sunshine Southern Wholesale Grocery, where he has worked since his early 20s. He and his wife Lily Dale have just moved into their new house in Houston and, in Will's words, "There's no finer house in Houston." He was poor as a child and had a successful career. However, Will is fired. Will talks about his only son, Bill, who had moved to Atlanta. Bill drowned six months ago, and Will suspects Bill actually committed suicide. Lily Dale refuses to consider that he committed suicide, instead believing that his death was an accident. Bill's roommate, Randy Carter, the "Young Man from Atlanta", had been trying to see Will, who believes that all he wants is money. Will learns that Bill had given Randy money, but eventually accepts that he knew Bill and "that's the only Bill I care to know about." A review in The New York Times titled "Nameless Menace in Latest by Foote" points out: "This being 1950, nobody in the play mentions the word 'gay,' or refers even euphemistically to the truth of the relationship between Bill and Randy." Lily Dale Kidder Will Kidder Pete Davenport Carson Tom Jackson Miss Lacey Ted Cleveland Jr. Clara Etta Doris Meneffree
Dividing the Estate is a play by Horton Foote. The play premiered at the McCarter Theatre in 1989 and Off-Broadway in 2007, winning the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
A newlywed couple, Emily and Richard Murray, move into the house of her parents. Emily had divorced her first husband. She soon finds herself caught between her seemingly-ideal husband and her family. Her parents, Lyd and Lee Davis, are loving but also controlling. Lee plans on selling his own farm and some property, to help Richard set up a business.
Horton Foote’s theatrical cycle comprises three plays, each made of three one-act plays, following Horace Robedaux from 1902 through 1928 and the Depression’s beginning. Across three generations of Texas families, the cycle traces his childhood, marriage and family life.
The Trip to Bountiful is a play by American playwright Horton Foote. It was first performed on March 1, 1953, on NBC television before premiering on the Broadway stage in November 1953. The play depicts an elderly woman, Carrie Watts, "who has to live with a daughter-in-law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side." While residing with this unhappy family in a Houston apartment, Watts dreams of returning to the tiny town of Bountiful, Texas where she was raised. She manages to escape the apartment and embarks by bus to her destination. She meets several people along the way. Her stay in Bountiful is brief as she is whisked back to Houston by her son and daughter-in-law. The play was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1985.
In 1950, Will Kidder, age 64, is at his office at the Sunshine Southern Wholesale Grocery, where he has worked since his early 20s. He and his wife Lily Dale have just moved into their new house in Houston and, in Will's words, "There's no finer house in Houston." He was poor as a child and had a successful career. However, Will is fired. Will talks about his only son, Bill, who had moved to Atlanta. Bill drowned six months ago, and Will suspects Bill actually committed suicide. Lily Dale refuses to consider that he committed suicide, instead believing that his death was an accident. Bill's roommate, Randy Carter, the "Young Man from Atlanta", had been trying to see Will, who believes that all he wants is money. Will learns that Bill had given Randy money, but eventually accepts that he knew Bill and "that's the only Bill I care to know about." A review in The New York Times titled "Nameless Menace in Latest by Foote" points out: "This being 1950, nobody in the play mentions the word 'gay,' or refers even euphemistically to the truth of the relationship between Bill and Randy." Lily Dale Kidder Will Kidder Pete Davenport Carson Tom Jackson Miss Lacey Ted Cleveland Jr. Clara Etta Doris Meneffree