The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois will be staging PRIDE AND PREJUDICE as part of its 2005-2006 season. The play will be presented from October 5 through November 13, 2005.
Philippa Hawker in The Age points out that BRIDE AND PREJUDICE is not the only film to put a modern, multicultural twist on a classic tale–or even a classic Jane Austen tale.
In 2000, Sense and Sensibility was the basis for Kandukondain, a modern tale of two sisters and their differing attitudes towards love. It came not from Hindilanguage Bollywood, but from Tamil Southern India - popularly known as “Kollywood”. Its cast included Bride and Prejudice star Aishwarya Rai.
Ms. Hawker mentions the recent resurge in adaptations of Jane Austen films:
A decade later, the Austen appetite has still not been sated. In 2003, Pride and Prejudice received a Mormon makeover - in a smallscale Salt Lake City production, Elizabeth Bennet was presented as a college student and an aspiring writer dealing with college life and a snotty English guy. A bigger budget period Pride and Prejudice, with Keira Knightley (of Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean), is due for release later this year.
…and also notes that Hollywood AND Bollywood love the formula of placing a time switch or cultural change on a classic story.
Among the classics, Shakespeare, too, appears to have a perpetual screenwriting credit, whether the films are made straight, tonguein- cheek, in another language, modernised or given dance numbers and songs: Kiss Me Kate and West Side Story; Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive Romeo + Juliet, all musical numbers, guns and sartorial style; Othello as a college basketball star (O); The Taming of the Shrew as a teen movie (Ten Things I Hate About You); Ethan Hawke as Hamlet, Al Pacino as Richard III.
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