Primary Stages continues its 2017-2018 Off-Broadway season at the Cherry Lane Theatre with Kate Hamill's new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice.
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10 images The outspoken Elizabeth Bennet faces mounting pressure from her status-conscious mother to secure a suitable marriage. But is marriage suitable for a woman of Elizabeth's intelligence and independence? Especially when the irritating, aloof, self-involved… tall, vaguely handsome, mildly amusing, and impossibly aristocratic Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn?! What? Why are you looking at us like that? Literature's greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life than it does in this effervescent new adaptation.
During the intermission for Pride and Prejudice I heard more than once, "You should have seen Sense and Sensibility. THAT was stupendous." Oiy - I have done this same thing so many times I cannot count. Compare what is in front of me to something that was. Well, my chums, I have seen the light.
