YCPTheaterWorks performs Dividing the Estate

YCPTheaterWorks is proud to present their production of Dividing the Estate by Horton Foote. Performances will take place at The Cortlandt School of Performing Arts, Carbone Building, 24 Old Albany Post Rd, Croton on Hudson, NY for two weekends, Friday and Saturday, November 7 + 8 at 8pm and Sunday, November 9 at 2pm and Friday and Saturday, November 14 + 15 at 8pm and Sunday, November 16 at 2pm. All tickets are $18, general admission. Tickets can be purchased online through PayPal, by going to our website http://www.ycptw.org. Or by calling (914)245-2184. Reservations strongly recommended.

Dividing the Estate is the story of the Gordon clan, a Texas family who has been hard hit by the drop in oil prices in 1987. Family matriarch Stella (Denise Brown) rules over the family, but she is 85 years old, and her family smells their inheritance coming. Her younger daughter, predatory Mary Jo (Tori LaLonde) comes to visit for the day along with her husband (Joe Manuele) and their two daughters (Dianne Roxy Pennington + Tara Perucci), prompting a family get-together. Mary Jo is deeply in debt and wants to divide the estate before her mother dies. Various members of the family (Julie Griffin, Steve Schnapper, Ed Fonzo), including the servants (Grace Gabrieli, Keith Bulluck, Roffa Abayon), take sides in the debate and wonder how much, if anything, there actually is to inherit. The family bickers in the company of outsiders (Sara Colten + Jacqueline Anne Smith) as only a Southern family can, mentioning every slight and insult that has occurred over the past 80 years.

The play will be staged by experienced director and actor Elaine Hartel. She has directed many plays for YCPTW including All in the Timing, The Foreigner, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Witness for the Prosecution. She has also directed for the Hand to Mouth Players in Montrose, the Heritage Hills Theater in Somers and the Westchester Collaborative Theater in Ossining. She has performed major roles throughout Westchester in both comedy and drama over the last 40 years. She has a Master’s Degree in Communication Arts, Western Ct. State Univ., and a BA Degree, Tulane Univ., New Orleans (her home town).

PUBLICITY CONTACT: Jacqueline Smith
YCPTheatrework@optimum.net