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...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Jane Van Tassel/New York
VERY MOVING. THE HEARTBREAK beneath the courtesies." So writes Emma Thompson in the production diary she has just published, together with her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility. Clever girl. For writing this impeccable adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. For giving it a still, deep center with her delicately repressed (and then superbly released) performance in one of the title roles--she's "Sense," otherwise known as Elinor Dashwood. For defining in seven words the essence of romantic comedy. And for understanding that well over a century before it became a movie genre, Austen had mastered its most basic conventions...
Hatfield is survived by his wife, Jane Hatfield of Cambridge...
Much about this production was not clear. While the plot was interesting, if a little too heavy-handed, the actors made watching the play uncomfortable. For some reason Melissa Gibson's Deedee-as-ghost ran laps around the stage while nastily berating poor Jane. Why was she berating her? Aaron Mathes seemed to have difficulty with Tarilc While he was appealing (mostly for lack of any positive male characters), his mood changes and facial expressions were awkward as well as unexplained. Santiago Tapia delivered Samir's lines unsure of appropriate emphasis. He did not seem comfortable moving around the stage...
...other hand, Lucia Brawley's Jane was pleasant to watch. Well cast as a beautiful, sweet dancer, Brawley was the most able of the cast to hold the stage. Unfortunately she was forced to say some of the most ridiculous lines of the play, mostly concerning the plight of the Arab-American woman. Sometimes one wondered whether or not Shamieh was making fun of Jane: "I'm neither Arab nor American. I'm myself...