Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is the latest from the FSU/Asolo School of Music.
Hamill’s plays are comedies. Austen’s novels are not. This double vision is the comic engine that drives the show.
Playwright’s comics strategy assumes you know the source material.
Based on the audience’s reaction, many did. As the “Rocky Horror” crowd came alive, they reacted ahead of time to the twists and references of the story. (A die-hard Jane Austen fan, no doubt.) They knew the story was cold.
If you skipped Jane Austen’s reading assignment, here’s the gist.
England is the place; the time is 1811. The Dashwoods and their three daughters, Eleanor (Rebecca Rose Mims), Marianne (Sharon Pearlman) and Margaret (Brielle Reeve) La Heidlington) lives happily in a mansion in Sussex.
Then Mr Dashwood suddenly fell to the ground and died. Their happiness is also gone.
Thanks to primogeniture, the sisters’ wife-scary half-brother John (Ricky Watson Jr.) inherits everything. His unkind wife (Brook Turner) told him to keep it. He said, “Yes, dear.” And expelled the housewife.
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