Emma review " a Regency comedy as light as a pillow fight
Abbey theatre, DublinSet in a nonspecific Austenland inspired more by Hollywood than history, this is an energetic, puppyish production that is easy to like Handsome, clever and rich Emma Woodhouse finds new ways to exercise her charm in Kate Hamill's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel from 1816. Claire O'Reilly's pop-powered production ramps up the arch comedy and artifice in a fluorescent, Regency-lite setting, whic…