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Sense and Sensibility 1995 – Revisited

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Reading Challenges, Sense & Sensibility Movies, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 22 June 2011 | 27 Comments »

Nominated for seven Academy Awards®, the 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility remains one of my most cherished interpretations of a Jane Austen novel. Everything about this film project seems to be touched with gold; from the award winning screenplay by actress Emma Thompson; to the incredible depth of British acting talent: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, [...]

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Sense and Sensibility at the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle – A Review

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , on 14 June 2011 | 9 Comments »

“Happy, happy Elinor, you cannot have an idea of what I suffer.” “Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah; if you knew! And can you believe me to be so while I see you so wretched!” – Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 29 Happiness and suffering, and the emotional extremes that cause it, is an important [...]

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Preview of Sense and Sensibility Stage Play at Book-It Rep in Seattle

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen Stage Productions, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , on 28 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We are very fortunate to have one of the nation’s premiere small theater companies right in our own backyard. For the last 20 years the Book-It Repertory Theater of Seattle has been exclusively adapting written work for the stage. Among the sixty plus world premier adaptations they have presented are stage productions of three Jane [...]

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Giveaway Winner Announced for The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Reading Challenges, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , , , , , , on 12 May 2011 | 3 Comments »

45 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a paperback copy of The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries, by Emma Thompson. The winner drawn at random is CJ who left a comment on May 2nd. Congratulations CJ! To claim your prize, please contact me with your full name and address [...]

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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries, by Emma Thompson – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Sense & Sensibility Movies, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011 on 27 April 2011 | 47 Comments »

Nominated for seven Academy Awards®, the 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility remains one of my most cherished interpretations of a Jane Austen novel. Everything about this film project seems to be touched with gold; from the award winning screenplay by actress Emma Thompson; to the incredible depth of British acting talent: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, [...]

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Lady Catherine vs. Elizabeth Bennet in the Prettyish Kind of Little Wilderness

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Pride & Prejudice Movies, tagged , , , on 31 March 2011 | 15 Comments »

One of my favorite scenes in Pride and Prejudice, and quite possibly in all literature, is the confrontation by Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Elizabeth Bennet in the prettyish kind of little wilderness at Longbourn. Lady Catherine has just heard an alarming report that her nephew, Mr. Darcy, was shortly to be engaged to Miss [...]

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Sense and Sensibility 1981 – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Jane Austen Adaptations, Reading Challenges, Sense & Sensibility Movies, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , on 24 February 2011 | 24 Comments »

This is my second review for the Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011. *throws confetti* It is my year-long homage to Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility. This 1981 BBC seven-part miniseries of Sense and Sensibility is a solid but flawed adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece. In my mind, the character of Marianne [...]

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Preview of Jane Austen’s Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy at the Old Globe

Posted in Jane Austen Stage Productions, tagged , , , , , on 31 December 2010 | 7 Comments »

Jane Austen’s Emma, the new romantic comedy from Tony Award nominated composer Paul Gordon and directed by Tony Award nominee, Jeff Calhoun, is a musical production of Austen classic story of our favorite nonsensical girl. It premiers January 15, and runs through February 27, 2011 at the Old Globe Theatre in Dan Diego, California. Emma, [...]

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