![]() ![]() It should come as no surprise to any Austen fan that obstacles will be popping up along the road to wedded bliss, a previously unmentioned engagement and rumors of an unforgivable past indiscretion among them. And should things not work out between Elinor and Edward, there’s always Colonel Brandon waiting patiently “on the wrong side of five-and-thirty” for the elder Miss Dashwood to pay him romantic heed. Willoughby (the dashing stranger who comes to an injured rain-drenched Marianne’s rescue one stormy night). The cottage offered them by cousin Sir John Middleton does provide Elinor and Marianne with a place to live, but if either young woman is to find any sort of future financial security, marital matches must be made.įortunately for both Dashwoods, prospects soon appear in the persons of Fanny’s brother Edward (whose friendship with Elinor might well lead to wedding bells) and Mr. (That’s about a hundred thousand dollars a year in contemporary currency.) ![]() It doesn’t help that their recently deceased father’s heir, the sisters’ half-brother John, has been cajoled by his money-grubbing wife Fanny into pocketing the evicted Dashwood girls’ three-thousand pounds per annum their father had intended as their due. Movie buffs will recognize Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (brought to indelible cinematic life by Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett), early 19th-century sisters denied by English law the inheritance rights women take for granted these days. The Dashwood Sisters sing, and gloriously so, in Paul Gordon’s charming, witty, heartstrings-tugging musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s gift, not just to San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre and Jane Austen lovers across the Southland, but to anyone in the mood for music, laughter, tears, and romance-with-a-capital-R. ![]()
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