Stage and Screen
Despite her works being over 200 years old, Jane still lives in the hearts and minds of the fans the world over. As part of her modern persona, she inspires us to create new media experiences from stage and screen through to digital adaptations, on-line courses, and more.
So what’s your favourite Austen film adaptation? Have you taken advantage of the free on-line course from the University of Southampton's Future Learn on her life and time? Or perhaps you’ve visited the virtual Regency world of “Ever, Jane” featuring a Jane inspired on-line role-playing game, or maybe you’ve snuck a peak through Lizzie Bennett’s Diary, a YouTube vlog based on Pride and Prejudice? There are simply so many adaptions of Austen’s work to choose from.
Pride & Prejudice The Musical Premiered Online April 10, 2020
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet (Mary Mattison) meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy (Justin Mortelliti). But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Pride & Prejudice, based on the classic novel by Jane Austen, is a new musical adaptation by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon (Broadway’s Jane Eyre). The show was filmed at the Tony Award-winning TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, CA., where it played its world premiere from December 4, 2019 to January 4, 2020 and established an all-time box office record. The production was directed by TheatreWorks’ Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and choreographed by Dottie Lester-White.
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EMMA.
Director Autumn de Wilde and Focus Features bring us EMMA.
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” - Jane Austen
Thanks to a new production from Focus Features, one of Jane Austen’s most beloved characters is hitting the big screen in a new adaptation of EMMA.
In theatres in select Canadian markets February 2020 and in wide release across Canada in early March.
For more on EMMA. check out the official JASNA Facebook page for links to reviews and articles.
Cast of Persuasion play Calgary - Captain Wentworth, Ann Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa, and Henrietta pose with JASNA Calgary members, Lindsey, Laurie, and Gwen.
In February of 2018 a few Jasna members enjoyed tea with the cast of Persuasion, a play performed by Calgary's Workshop Theatre. Adapted by: Jennifer Le Blanc
Directed by: Shelby Nicol: Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen’s most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne’s family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?
"It was a wonderful interpretation of Jane Austen’s novel and we thoroughly enjoyed the production!"
Check out these interesting sites and movie trailers for more Jane Austen content and conversation.
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