The New York Times:
“Hamill…has a gift for condensing three-volume novels into galloping two-act plays. Her screwball PRIDE AND PREJUDICE…is as frolicsome as her earlier efforts. It hasn’t met a rib it can’t tickle.”
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
By Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen
May 2 – 18, 2025
This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this P&P for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome, mildly amusing, and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn?! Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life than it does in this effervescent adaptation. Because what turns us into greater fools…than the high-stakes game of love?
TheatreMania:
“…a laugh-out-loud adaptation… Hamill…give[s] Austen’s novel a deliciously antic sensibility…This PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has comedy at its heart, but regarding the treatment of women, it shows us enough unsettling similarities between the 18th century and now to make us pause thoughtfully between laughs.”
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re/discover
It’s the theme for Theatre B’s 24-25 season. Each one of the four scripts already selected for the ‘24-’25 season has rediscovery at its center.
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Rediscover a Jane Austen classic—where are our Bridgerton fans?
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Witness a father and an adult daughter as they rediscover each other in a moment which could either divide them or draw them closer.
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Rediscover the power of a family legend, as the Nowaks learn the story behind the remarkable statue built by the family patriarch.
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And in the first production of the season, award-winning playwright Heidi Schreck takes us on a wild ride of rediscovering this/our nation’s Constitution.
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Rediscover Halloween and theatre, itself, with our Halloween original and adaptive theatre collaboration with Hope Inc. and Concordia College (title TBD).