Sense and Sensibility Remains Relevant
April 24, 2008
With all do respect to the Bard, no one captures the essence of springtime in the theater like Jane Austen. Winsome, whimsical and ironically, quite wise, the stage adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is as germane to the politics and humor of love today, as the original story was in 1795.
Currently on stage at the Leddy Center for the Performing Arts (through April 27) the production effuses with all the charm, wit, complications and Romantic era drama you might expect of the English landed gentry.
Bubbling with a rich thematic soup of -isms (materialism, feminism, classism, etc.) the story ponders the potential for emotional satiability. How do lovely, spirited women find true love? Especially those femme fatales who carry the burden of questionable marriageability second to uncertain family finances?
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