Notify me of new posts via email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. Make it so! Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading Your former Princess of Artsopolis, welcomes you to Artsalot! Bookmark the permalink. April 12, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email Address never made public. While the staging takes a few scenes to find a suitably crisp pacing and some of the accents are a tad slippery, the central performances are captivating.
Wanlass is an irresistible Anne, quiet and noble and long-suffering but capable of a devastating one-liner in a pinch. Springhorn Jr. Read her at www. First St. Opinion Commentary. By Mercury News migration dfmdev. Report an error Policies and Standards Contact Us. It can be difficult to get the balance right in an Austen adaptation: Some productions play up the comedy to the point of goofiness, some go for brooding romance, and some come off as stuffy period pieces.
There are certain tropes one comes to expect from Austen stories, and many of them are on display here. You have the two people clearly meant for each other but kept separate by pride, propriety, misunderstandings and poor communication. Not to mention the charming fellow who turns out to be an unscrupulous cad and the social climbing hangers-on. Lily Narbonne embodies thoughtful grace and well-earned melancholy as Anne Elliot, the neglected second of three sisters, who years ago broke off an engagement with the man she loved, Frederick Wentworth wonderfully charming Patrick Kelly Jones , on the advice of her godmother a refined Alison Whismore and has regretted it ever since.
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