Pride and Prejudice. Janet Munsil’s new stage adaptation captures all this in vivid, eloquent and frequently very funny fashion
Sometimes we only discover ourselves by discovering someone else. That at least is the case for Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the main characters in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s classic early 19th-century novel about love, identity and social structure. Each is hobbled by pride and prejudice, and each, over the course of the story, learns to see the other and themselves with a clearer eye. Good thing: without the transformation, they would never have fallen in love, and we wouldn’t have had Austen’s wonderful tale.
Janet Munsil’s new stage adaptation captures all this in vivid, eloquent and frequently very funny fashion. Some devotees of Austen may prefer the author wearing a quiet, ironic smile to laughing out loud, but this period drama is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and, despite sometimes swapping Austen’s subtlety for obviousness, remains in the important ways true to the spirit of the original….read more on the Ottawa Citizen: