#jane-austen-adaptation

#jane-austen-adaptation

One of the delights of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's joyous production of Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley is how the show works on the most basic levels of comedy. Basically, it's funny; very, very funny. But that's not all it is. The laughs are plentiful, accentuated by whip-smart actors who calibrate phrases leading to lots of pauses for audience uproar. Those laughs are balanced with real world issues, and an longing for these gentlewomen locked into the suffocating zeitgeist of early 1800s British Regency.

Inspired by Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley is the third play in their Christmas at Pemberley trilogy (following Miss Bennet and The Wickhams) and mixes new characters with old ones from the original novel. The story follows the friendship between-and love lives of-Georgiana, the younger sister of Mr. Darcy, and Kitty, the younger sister of Elizabeth Bennet.