Sense and Sensibility - DPS Acting Edition

It follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters - sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne - after their father's sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable

Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality

When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?

CAST
M3-8,F4-9 (doubling, flexible casting): 17 total

Flexible Set

REVIEWS

" an unconditional delight invigorating a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen remains remarkably true to the values and priorities of its source. The classic Austen preoccupations with real estate, income, class, reputation and equilibrium in life are all rendered brightly and legibly here" ~ NY Times

"so full of galloping comic vitality as to suggest a bunch of stupendously clever kids playing dress-up in the nursery. It's by far the smartest Jane Austen adaptation to come along since Amy Heckerling's Clueless, and at least as much fun" ~ Wall Street Journal

"Perhaps the greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history" ~ Huffington Post

" inventive, faithful, clever and hilarious. Kate Hamill's marvelous play is one of the finest stage adaptations of a literary classic" ~ TheaterScene.net

"rowdy, exuberantthoroughly modern yet not at all contemporized. Kate Hamill's felicitous adaptation gives us ageless emotions, couched in the mores and locutions of the past, yet timeless in their arduously suppressed intensity" ~Time Out NY

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