It is a truth universally acknowledged that Gunderson and Melcon brilliantly capture the heightened idiom of Austen's world. What makes this writing team so remarkable, here as well as in Miss Bennet, is the consistency of their plays' characters with their originals in the novel. The playwrights are also expert at translating the kind of emotional complexity that, in the Austen texts, is usually only verbally commu…
SOURCE: twincitiesarts.com at 10:03AM on December 12, 2018