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Sense and Sensibility

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 2m, 2any gender (adult)

Jane Austen, Andy Graham, Roger Parsley

Sense and Sensibility
by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham, based on the novel by Jane Austen

Roger Parsley and Andy Graham have streamlined the well-loved Jane Austen novel and produced a fast-moving, easy to stage adaptation, which retains all the delicate irony, spirit and romance of the original. Left in straitened circumstances when thei…

Sense and Sensibility

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    Cast Size
    3w, 2m, 2any gender (adult)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (Literature), Period

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Roger Parsley and Andy Graham have streamlined the well-loved Jane Austen novel and produced a fast-moving, easy to stage adaptation, which retains all the delicate irony, spirit and romance of the original. Left in straitened circumstances when their father dies, the Dashwood girls are forced to move to a Devon cottage, but Aunt Jennings is determined to find husbands for them in London.
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M3 F4, may be played by M2 F3 with doubling. (Young, middle age).
  • Time Period 19th Century

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her novels include the anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1 ...
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Andy Graham

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Roger Parsley

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