PRIDE AND PREJUDICE on stage in Detroit
A production of Helen Jerome’s stage adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will be staged at the Bonstelle Theatre of Wayne State University in Detroit on December 9 - 11 and 16 - 18. Tickets are $14 and are available now.
One hopes that they spell Miss Austen’s name correctly before the playguide goes to press.
September 10th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Yes, I know! I have already marked it off in my calendar. Granted, Bonstelle is just a University theatre, but.. we’ll take what we can, right?
November 25th, 2005 at 1:40 am
hi! I’m going to be playing Lizzy in the Bonstelle’s production of P&P. I am so excited to see how word is spreading. We are having so much fun rehearsing for the play and I have just fallen in love with Jane Austen. I had never read book before this summer…it is written so beautiful and I hope that all who come will enjoy the adaptation we were fortunatly able to get ahold of. Tell your friends, and I hope you enjoy the show!
November 25th, 2005 at 1:41 am
pardon my miss-spellings.. I was excited!
November 26th, 2005 at 2:11 am
At least you spelled Austen right.
Break a leg! Lizzy is my favorite heroine ever. Wish I could see it but I’m in PA.
December 2nd, 2005 at 5:04 pm
I’m playing Bingley in Bonstelle’s production… I hope you find the production satisfactory, Tanya…we’ve got a great director experienced in British dialect and the Regency period…and a great choreographer helping to make the movements just as seemless as the speech. (Not to mention a great cast. : )). I’m looking forward to meeting those who are coming solely as Austen fans…so I hope you might say “hi” after the show and let us know what you think! : )
December 9th, 2005 at 9:26 am
My friends and I are driving down to Detroit to see the play on Sunday! We are very excited.
December 13th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
So, I went to see this production on Sunday (12/11) and here are my thoughts. Jaclyn (Elizabeth) was excellent. I thought she did a fantastic job and really captured the part. Jeremy was terrific too - usually actors portray Mr. Bingley as really dorky and he didn’t do that. Oh, and Mrs. Bennet was great too!
If anyone out there is thinking of going to see it, I highly recommend it!
December 26th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Great! I am so glad you enjoyed it! I can’t believe the plays over, it was so much fun to work on, and so much fun to wear those costumes.. ill be missing it, that is for sure. It’s great to get good feedback from a fan of the book too, because when performing an adaptation on stage the most important question you have to answer is ‘how well where they able to translate the story to the stage?’, or ‘did the book come to life on stage for the audience?’. By all means, I think that is one of the most important questions that has to be asked when producing a play that is so well known a book as Jane Austen. That is one think I don’t think the movie did very well… (which i finally saw on tuesday– the new version)… anway!
The lines I think I’ll miss the most: (to Darcy at the piano at Rosings when elizabeth is inquiring on why darcy won’t introducing himself to strangers and he says hes not good at it..)
‘My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many womens do. They have not the same force and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault because I would not practice.’
and (when talking with Fitzwillian about darcy and Fitz. says he has been meaning to leave for days but darcy keeps putting it off.. to which lizzy replies:)
‘And you are ever at his disposal. I wonder he doesn’t marry to secure a lasting convienience of that kind.’
fit: ‘but who would be good enough for darcy??’
(they laugh
that was always a fun scene.. oh boy i could go on all day with this.. but i thought you may want to remember (like me) some of the specific dialogue we were able to use.. while its still fresh in my head (a little over a week later).
Hope you all had a great holiday!
happy new year!!
December 26th, 2005 at 11:31 am
[ I always read what I wrote after i post it, and each time I find all these misspellings... I suppose it would be wise to 'proofread' before posting!
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