Emma, the (latest) musical
Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...
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. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 14, 2018
The Watsons on stage
The Watsons -- the novel Jane Austen began, probably in 1804, but never finished -- is a fascinating fragment. It’s bleak and wintry,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 15, 2018
Here we go again. . .
Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2017
P&P game-playing
Austen adaptations, whether on stage, screen or fanfic page, all too often fall victim to an excess of earnestness – the bonnets, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2017
The factory at work
The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 30, 2017
Jane lies in Winchester
Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2016
Austen in bedlam
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to see a very enjoyable and ingenious stage production of Sense and Sensibility, performed in New...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 27, 2016
Austen stories on stage
Listening to a really good actor read aloud from a really good book is one of life’s great pleasures, not to mention my go-to strategy...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2015
Regency improv
Were I to be in London tonight – which, alas, I am not – I would snap up a ticket to see Austentatious, an acting troupe that improvises...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2014
Clone me, please
Holy scheduling conflict, Batman! Just a couple of short-ish train rides from my home, a delightful-sounding Janeite event will take...
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