Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!
Bethel College, located near South Bend, Indiana, will be staging a production of Pride and Prejudice October 11 - 13, 2007.
The director seems a bit unsure about some of the adaptation’s omissions:
The Bennets have lost two of their daughters. Not to worry, though: Elizabeth Bennet remains the headstrong heroine of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in Helen Jerome’s adaptation of Austen’s delightful, well-known 1813 novel.
Among other necessary cuts and revisions, Jerome eliminates the roles of Mary and Kitty Bennet, sisters three and four in the family of five girls, in her adaptation, which opens Thursday at Bethel College.
“She’s added in all these other characters, (so) why did she cut two of the daughters?” director Anita Reimer says after noting the adaptation has 26 roles. “There are so many events that are condensed, and locations. We have only three locations in the show, but I think the dialogue is close to what Jane Austen had. There just isn’t as much of it.”
I have to admit I’m not quite sold on Lizzy’s ‘do.
