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Jonathan M
Ewart
and Old Courthouse
Theatre
Announce
The first reading of
The
Second Season of
the
LIVING
ROOM READING SERIES
Date: September 12
TIME: Beginning @ 4:00
pm
WHERE: Black Box Theatre of
OCT
49 Spring Street
NW
Concord, NC 28025
COST: Free
Admission.
September 12th: "Dividing the Estate"
by Horton Foote
Matriarch 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 in DIVIDING THE
ESTATE.
"DIVIDING THE ESTATE goes
for laughs and succeeds, and at the same time comments on more sweeping notions
of avarice, entitlement and carpet-bagging karma." —NY Daily News. "Horton
Foote's DIVIDING THE ESTATE—about a rapacious Southern family tangling over
finances—contains echoes of Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof and The Little
Foxes, but its elegiac tone and rich humor clearly reflect the spirit
of its playwright." —NY Post. "DIVIDING THE ESTATE will draw you into its
drawing room and the shadows beyond with the theatrical equivalent of a
page-turner, capturing your undivided attention as you hang on its teasing
turmoil in guiltlessly glad complicity."
—Bloomberg.com.
Cast List:
Becky Porter- Stella Gordon
Frances Quinn - Lucille
Jon Bowlby - Lewis Gordon
Jonathan M Ewart - Son
Natasha Wall - Mildred
John Price - Doug
Lenise Spann-Bell - Cathleen
Kitty Beard - Sissie
Karla Eaves - Emily
Tammi Shumate - Mary Jo
Bryan Shumate - Bob
Katie Warlick - Pauline
Melissa Bowden - Irene Ratliff
Follow the progress of this season's readings by reading the LRRS Blog
*Reader's theatre is a style of theatre in which the actors do not memorize their lines. Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit/stand together on a stage and read through the script together. In Reader's theatre, actors use vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, and intricate blocking. | 
