'Estate' entertaining despite sluggish pace

By John Berger

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 18, 2012

~~<p>The importance of estate planning is emphasized throughout Manoa Valley Theatre's production of "Dividing the Estate." The outcome is easy to anticipate, and the play continues on longer than necessary, but most of the characters are vividly written and the cast brings them to life in engaging style.</p>
<p>Written by veteran playwright Horton Foote and directed for MVT by Betty Burdick, this story of three generations of wealthy Texans bickering over the future of the family holdings meanders toward its conclusion with the speed of a waterlogged stump drifting slowly in the backwaters of a southern swamp on a late summer afternoon.</p>
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The importance of estate planning is emphasized throughout Manoa Valley Theatre's production of "Dividing the Estate." The outcome is easy to anticipate, and the play continues on longer than necessary, but most of the characters are vividly written and the cast brings them to life in engaging style.

Written by veteran playwright Horton Foote and directed for MVT by Betty Burdick, this story of three generations of wealthy Texans bickering over the future of the family holdings meanders toward its conclusion with the speed of a waterlogged stump drifting slowly in the backwaters of a southern swamp on a late summer afternoon. Login for more...