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Annette Tyler must have really wanted to
produce this play, as, quite apart from the challenges presented by
a period piece (in terms of wardrobe, language and etiquette) she
had to recruit no fewer than eight new faces out of a total cast of
fourteen. We have no review to tell us how the new recruits rose to
the challenge, but they certainly look the
part.
"Pride and Prejudice" was written in
1797, when Jane Austen was just 22 years old, therafter being
revised and published in 1813. There is nothing in the novel to fix
the date of its happenings precisely, but it is generally presumed
to be set during the late 18th Century.
The action takes place in the Morning
Room at Longbourn, the Bennet family home. Interestingly, the script
gives the season as a period of five months from February to July,
but the Players opted to set it between May and October. One
presumes that this variation caused no complications in respect of
the script, and I suspect that it made Jenny Hatfield's job in the
wardrobe department a little
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