Review of San Jose Repertory Theater’s Pride and Prejudice
The San Jose Mercury News reviews the San Jose Repertory Theatre’s production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, previously blogged about here. The reviewer, a confessed Janeite, allows that while the production is not without fault, she still enjoys it. It is, after all, Jane.
Indeed there are times when Jory’s show (a co-production between the Rep, Arizona Theatre Company and Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre) lacks something in the way of urgency. Like a fruitcake with many delicious pieces of cherry and orange but a somewhat bland pound cake binding them together, this production misses some of the literary deliciousness that Austenophiles (yours truly, for instance) have come to crave from the oh-so yummy courtship of middle-class Lizzie Bennet (Julia Dion) and richer-than-god Darcy (Anthony Marble).
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Lest you think me too critical, a veritable Darcy even, pray understand that on the whole I found this “Pride and Prejudice” most amusing. David Pichette courts giggles as the witty but clueless papa Bennet and Remi Sandri’s hard-of-hearing uncle-shtick could make even the dour Lady Catherine de Bourgh (a withering turn by Pat Nesbit) crack a smile.
The play runs now through December 30. As always, AustenBlog welcomes reader reviews.
