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7 October 2004

What’s 50 years between friends?

Filed under: Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mags @ 11:52 pm

Peterborough Today has a report from an extra in P&P3.

He said: “It was really strange going from working on the road to walking around a huge set dressed as a Victorian market trader.

“In one of the scenes, Keira Knightley is standing just in front of my stall, so I should be in quite a few clips of the film.

“I also spoke quite a bit to both of them, and found them to be really nice people.

“They were always asking how I was, and made me and the rest of the extras feel like part of the team.
“It was a fantastic experience.”

Apparently there was no historical training involved; otherwise we dare say they would have known that in 1796, when the film was set, Queen Victoria wasn’t even a gleam in the Duke of Kent’s eye and therefore they should not describe their characters as “Victorian.”

Austen paraliterature recommendations

Filed under: Paraliterature — Mags @ 11:44 pm

The Wakefield (Massachusetts) Observer notes that we are in the midst of yet another Jane Austen renaissance and recommends some reading material for those who are hankering after more of Jane’s characters.

The fascination with Jane Austen, her peerless characters and captivating dialogue re-emerges every decade or so. It’s usually begun by an author who tries to continue one of Austen’s stories or by an adaptation of one of her works into film. It’s not because there are no new fiction characters to be conceived and written. More likely, these periodic revivals reflect a compelling need to continue the relationship with Austen’s sympathetic and entertaining characters.

Among the recommendations are The Jane Austen Book Club, The Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron, and many of the most recent batch of P&P sequels.

Scary Janeites frighten director. Film at 11.

Filed under: Stage — Mags @ 11:15 pm

A stage production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE opens Friday at the Lakeland Theater in Kirtland, Ohio (near Cleveland). The director seems a trifle intimidated by Jane Austen fans.

“I had to get this adaptation vetted from the Jane Austen Society,” says director Martin Friedman. “They wanted to make sure the adaptation was true to the literary work. They’re really passionate . . . and sorta scary.”

Scary? Us little ol’ Janeites? We’re pussycats. Just ask Patricia Rozema.

P.S. As always, if you see this play and want to send in a review, we’d love to share it with our readers.

 

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