5/19/2023 0 Comments Sense and sensibility 2022![]() Katie Kleiger and Megan Anderson in ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ Photo by Teresa Castracane. And, as directed by Susanna Gellert, the play is also made slapstick silly with its spartan staging, breakneck speed, and most of the cast doubling or tripling character roles. ![]() Her works, too, are always irreverent, contemporary, and winking at the audience who know these works well, while offering accessible entry points for those not versed in 19th-century literature. Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility remains true to the source material, and in her vein of feminist stagings of classic works, she highlights how the cruel inequities and societal pressures of that time could ruin young men and women on their way to a happily ever after. The Company of ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ Photo by Teresa Castracane. In between, there are romances, suitors, cads, many tears, failed and secret engagements, and minor scandals. ![]() It ends (211-year-old SPOILER ALERT) with a double wedding. Dashwood) dropped unceremoniously on a table with several gossips leaning over the body and whispering behind their fans what the patriarch’s death means for his widow and three daughters - two of whom are of marriageable age, but now left without any money or prospects. It begins with a shrouded corpse (the late Mr. ![]()
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