Alert Janeite Helen B. wrote to let us know that Miss Austen Regrets will be available on Region 2 DVD on March 24, 2008.
We wonder if that means it will be shown on television around that time? Hmm.
And look! Cover art!
We’re just posting stuff now to take up space so the title of the next post doesn’t overlap on wide-screen monitors. 
That’s much better.
We are looking a bit askance at the author, but it looks like Book-It Repertory’s Persuasion is a winner.
Men are sometimes supernumeraries in Austen, divided into two groups: suitable for marriage and unsuitable for marriage. But Wentworth is multidimensional. Hurt pride, personal ambition, good fortune plucked from the horrors of Napoleonic naval wars and willingness to take a chance, damn it all, round him out. As Wentworth, John Bogar has to portray a lot of stoical manliness. But eventually his acting floods with emotion.
What distinguishes Austen from standard-issue romance novelists is her energetic satire. Kate Czaijkowski, as Anne’s sister Elizabeth, and Kevin McKeon as the girls’ father, are both absurdly assured as eye-on-the-prize social climbers. Pam Nolte is equally assured (and funny) as a perennially mistaken arbiter of social expediency. She would have Anne marry the dreadful Mr. Elliot, of all people.
We hope to have a review of the play from AustenBlog’s West Coast Bureau! Thanks to Alert Janeite Lisa for sending the link.
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