Jane Austen Weekend in Lyme Regis
The Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis is organizing a Jane Austen Weekend on November 10-11, 2007. They cannot promise any sailors waiting around to rescue swooning women, but have planned a full schedule of events, including a talk by Lyme Regis expert Diana Shervington (a descendant of one of Jane’s brothers); afternoon tea; an evening performance of “Jane Austen, An Elegant Portrayal,” a play by the Phoenix Theatre Company, including “readings from her letters and dramatized extracts from some of her best loved novels”; a film adaptation of one of Jane’s novels at the historic cinema, The Regent; and a tour of the Lyme Regis locations of the film of Persuasion.
