Theater Review: Pride and Prejudice

After 205 years, playwright Kate Hamill does for Jane Austin what Jane could not do for herself, by turning up the volume on the women’s voices in this English literary classic, as we see in this production at Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. When it was published in 1813, Jane couldn’t put her name on the book, and her brother had to execute the contract with the publisher; today, women are rewriting the social contract.

Hamill’s script follows the original storyline and borrows deftly from its narrative and dialogue but emphasizes Austin’s insightful and scathing evaluations of living in a patriarchal society, 116 years before Virginia Woolf published her renowned essay, “A Room of One’s Own.”

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