Horton Foote’s children carry on his work, acting at Old Globe
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Families coming to strife over how to divvy up the land that makes up their legacy is as old a dramatic subject as ‘King Lear.’ But Horton Foote’s handling of it in ‘Dividing the State’ is considerably more funny.
The comedy’s West Coast premiere at The Old Globe theater in San Diego deals with a legacy in more ways than one. When he died three years ago, just shy of his 93rd birthday, Foote left behind a theatrical oeuvre of more than 60 plays, plus Oscar-winning screenplays for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Tender Mercies.’ Now Hallie Foote and Horton Foote Jr., his eldest daughter and son, are uniting to carry his work forward.
Read here about how they’ll be battling onstage as sibling rivals for the sake of doing just the opposite as their father’s son and daughter.
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-- Mike Boehm
